Items tagged with TB epidemiology

Malaysia: Only 12.5% of TB cases last year involved foreigners (post)

MALACCA: Only about 12.5% or 3,242 of the total 25,837 tuberculosis (TB) cases last year involved foreigners in this country, according to Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

The TB in the air we breathe (post)

Wedged between mountain and sea on a breathtaking stretch of Cape Peninsula coast, the township of Masiphumelele is home to 23 000 people on about 40 hectares of land.* Despite its name which means ‘we shall succeed’ in isiXhosa, living conditions here are dire. It is overcrowded, sanitation is not what it should be, and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are rife.

TB epidemiology: Paris, Glasgow (post)

Incarceration for low-level drug crimes rapidly spreading TB in Brazil (post)

Increasing rates of drug-related incarcerations are perpetuating tuberculosis (TB) infection among Brazil’s general population, a new report, Reservoirs of Injustice, from the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale Law School finds.

WHO reveals Mozambique still listed as having a high TB rate (post)

Mozambique is still on the list of countries classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a high burden of tuberculosis, TB/HIV co-infection and drug-resistant tuberculosis.

TB-related deaths among people living with HIV falling, but not by enough (post)

Even though tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, it is the top infectious killer worldwide, claiming around 4400 lives a day. TB also remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, causing one in three AIDS-related deaths. However, progress has been made―TB-related deaths among people living with HIV peaked in 2005, at 600 000 deaths; since then, they have halved, to 300 000 in 2017.

A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific (post)

In Papua New Guinea, a TB epidemic threatens to turn into a disaster that could destabilize the Asia Pacific region. Situated about 90 miles from Australia in the Pacific Ocean, the island nation sees more than 100 cases of TB every day.

Local use of TB data in Zimbabwe led to improved data quality and better TB care (post)

The results of a retrospective cohort study conducted by The Union in collaboration with the Zimbabwe National TB Control Programme (NTP) showed that empowering staff at local-level TB clinics to collect, tabulate, analyse and use their TB data, led to improvements in diagnoses and treatment.

Watch: Free housing for Mumbai slum dwellers comes with a grave TB threat (post)

The Mumbai development plan 2034 promises “one million affordable houses, eight million jobs, several open spaces, and slum rehabilitation projects” to the residents of the city. However, as recent video published by Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai emphasises, the congested, unhygienic designs of several slum rehabilitation projects constructed so far have exposed residents to severe health risks, including that of tuberculosis.

‘Worryingly high’ number of people infected with latent form of drug-resistant TB (post)

More than 19 million people around the globe are infected with one of the most complex forms of dormant tuberculosis, threatening efforts to control the fatal disease, researchers have warned.