Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Novel score predicts 10-year TB risk in patient contacts (post)
A novel risk score successfully predicted and stratified the 10-year tuberculosis risk for adult contacts of patients who already had the disease, according to findings from a prospective derivation and external validation cohort study.
Ukraine’s TB problem is ticking time bomb for Europe (post)
Controlling the airborne disease takes on additional urgency this year as the country seeks to integrate into EU with a new visa-free regime.
Has the European Union met its targets for reducing TB fatalities? (post)
While tackling global health issues it is essential to measure the success of public health campaigns. In a study recently published in BMC Public Health, researchers report on the success of the European Union’s mission to reduce tuberculosis death rates across its countries. Here, we find out how they fared and look at the next steps for the future.
TB prevalence rises by 60% in Uganda - survey (post)
According to the new study, TB prevalence in Uganda now stands at 253 per 100,000 people, compared to 159 per 100,000 in 2015.
TB elimination in the United States — the need for renewed action (post)
Once called “the captain of all these men of death,” tuberculosis continues to kill 1.8 million people globally each year. In 2014, the World Health Assembly embraced an ambitious resolution to reduce deaths from tuberculosis by 95% by 2035. But despite such global concern, tuberculosis has all but vanished from the U.S. public’s mind as a perceived threat. Although this lack of attention is understandable, given the substantial decrease in disease burden over the past several decades, it jeopardizes the prospect of tuberculosis elimination in the United States — a goal established by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1989. Critical ethical and policy questions must be addressed if elimination is to be pursued in earnest.
Injection drug users fall through the gaps in India’s TB treatment program (post)
Fifty-year-old James is all skin and bones and can barely speak coherently. He has been an injecting drug user, or IDU, for more than 30 years. In July this year, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis – a diagnosis that was made during an exercise conducted by Delhi health authorities to find tuberculosis among injecting drugs users.
1 in 3 South Koreans have latent TB: data (post)
Rep. Nam In-soon of the ruling Democratic Party cited the annual Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2016 conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which showed that 33.2 percent of 2,051 participants tested positive for latent TB infection.
TB cases in the UK: 2000 to 2016 (post)
Official statistics annual reports from the UK enhanced tuberculosis surveillance systems.
Drug-resistant TB cases on rise in India (post)
A study found over 40% of 45,076 patients, in 75 selected studies for review, suspected for resistance to any first-line anti-TB drugs, tested positive in the last 20 years.
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