Items tagged with TB epidemiology
WHO #EndTB webinar: Strengthening TB surveillance (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the University of Oslo, will host a webinar on 8 July 2022 on the guidance, products and support for implementation that is available to countries to fully transition to case-based, digital surveillance systems for TB.
Call for expressions of interest: Expert(s) to conduct systematic reviews of the evidence on TB health-related risk factors (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program has initiated a process to review the evidence on the relative risks of health-related risk factors (alcohol use disorders, diabetes, HIV, tobacco smoking and undernutrition) that drive the TB epidemic globally. WHO is, therefore, seeking expressions of interest from academic institutions or other entities with relevant expertise and experience to perform the systematic reviews, synthesis and quality assessment of the available data.
The state of TB in South Africa: what does the first national TB prevalence survey teach us? (post)
South Africa is among the 30 high TB burden countries and has one of the highest incidence rates of notified TB in the world.
Guidance, tools and support for countries transitioning to digital, case-based surveillance for TB (post)
26 July 2022 | Geneva -- Over 300 representatives from countries and partners joined the webinar on “Strengthening TB surveillance: supporting countries to transition to case-based, digital surveillance”.
Ghana: Study reveals 25.2% of TB patients showed resistance to known TB drugs (post)
Resistance to tuberculosis drugs has become a major threat to the control of the disease globally.
Urban design in an antibiotic-resistant world: Lessons from Mumbai (post)
India has the highest number of multidrug-resistant TB cases in the world, contributing a quarter of the global burden, and Mumbai is a hot spot. Old building codes regulating light and space have ceased to exist in the city. In an increasingly interconnected modern world, with pandemics and antibiotic resistance on the rise, experts now worry that this architectural amnesia may prove devastating.
Underweight people at greater risk of TB (post)
There appears to be an inverse correlation between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of tuberculosis, especially in the underweight population, a recent study has found.
WHO convenes global experts to update guidance on national TB prevalence surveys (post)
13 October 2022 | Geneva: A meeting of a subgroup of WHO’s Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement was held in Geneva on 28–29 September to review draft content that has been developed for the new guidance on national TB prevalence surveys. The meeting brought together global experts in the design, implementation, analysis and/or reporting of national TB prevalence surveys, including people from national TB programmes, universities, national institutes and technical agencies, as well as independent consultants. Content related to screening and diagnostic algorithms, case definitions, diagnostic investigations, documents and data management, chest radiography and clinical management was discussed. Planned next steps include the update and finalization of the document with the targeted publication date in mid-2023.
The world's biggest infectious killer regains its deadly lead (post)
Following gargantuan global efforts against COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is once again the world's biggest infectious killer, a top expert has told AFP, lamenting the lack of focus on rooting out TB.
South Africa’s prisons are a breeding ground for the spread of TB. Our model shows how (post)
South African prisons are famously overcrowded. Prison populations are believed to exceed capacity by an overall 33%, although that number jumps to over 200% at some facilities, according to recent reports.
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