Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Major TB reduction impossible without expansion of ART coverage (post)
Tuberculosis incidence in sub-Saharan Africa is falling too slowly to meet global targets of an 80% reduction by 2030, and where incidence is falling, the decline is strongly associated with the extent of antiretroviral coverage in people living with HIV, a study by former World Health Organization modelling experts has found.
Over $300 million needed to reduce TB in Nigeria by 2030 (post)
The National Coordinator, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Dr Adebola Lawnson, disclosed in a statement that over $300 million is required to close the funding gap for Tuberculosis (TB) control in Nigeria by 2030.
Concern over high TB prevalence in prisons in Uganda (post)
Kampala. Prisons authorities have expressed concern over the high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) among inmates due to overwhelming numbers.
TB in SA: Three graphs that tell the story (post)
According to the World Health Organization estimates, South Africa continues to have one of the highest burdens of TB in the world. The burden of a disease refers to the number of infections and deaths within a population and the associated costs of treatment of a specific disease. Sean MacDonell and Marcus Low attempted to tell the story of the burden of TB on human life in South Africa using several graphs.
Estimated global prevalence of latent TB about 25% (post)
About one-quarter of the world’s population may be infected with latent tuberculosis, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the European Respiratory Journal.
Tuberculosis is Asia’s silent killer (post)
Tuberculosis (TB), as a Lancet editorial once put it, is an “unsexy” disease. No one dies of it in a matter of days. It’s not highly contagious. It does not come with rashes, haemorrhage, or other dramatic symptoms. And it has been around for so long.
Unmasking the hidden burden of TB in Mozambique (post)
The real burden of tuberculosis (TB) is probably higher than estimated, according to a study on samples from autopsies performed in a Mozambican hospital. The study, led by the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by ”la Caixa”, shows that highly sensible molecular techniques can detect cases that escape clinical diagnosis and even traditional post-mortem examination of organs and tissues.
Groundbreaking study on KZN community gives new hope to fight TB (post)
Durban - Tuberculosis (TB) despite it being treatable disease is the world's biggest infectious killer, claiming the lives of an estimated 1.6 million people around the world every year including 78 000 South Africans.
TB dropping among US children, adolescents (post)
Pediatric tuberculosis cases in the US have been on a steady decline for at least a decade now, according to findings from a national data analysis.
Vietnam: Health sector detects more than 50,000 new TB patients in the first six months of 2019 (post)
HÀ NỘI — More than 50,000 new tuberculosis (TB) patients have been discovered nationwide in the first six months of 2019.
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