Items tagged with TB programs
Battling drug-resistant TB, and the Indian government (post)
It is doubtful when he wrote a letter to a medical journal about patients in Mumbai afflicted with an untreatable form of tuberculosis that Dr. Zarir Udwadia was seeking to become the source of controversy himself. But instead of provoking an all-out attack on the disease, as he had hoped, the letter set off a global health alarm and, at least initially, prompted a backlash from the government.
Mitigating financial burden of TB through active case finding targeting household and neighbourhood contacts in Cambodia (post)
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Sub-group on Childhood TB to be formed in Pakistan in November (post)
Led by the National TB Control Programme (NTP), a sub-group on Childhood Tuberculosis will be established, tentatively by November 2016, as a first step to prioritise and scale up Pakistan's response to what still remains a relatively neglected area. Plans to revisit the guidelines on management of Childhood TB and to conduct a Childhood TB situation analysis are also in the pipeline. Additionally, a package of interventions will have been developed, by June 2017, for delivery of paediatric TB care in public and private sectors alike.
Cambodia: Funding the fight against TB (post)
Progress in Cambodia in reducing deaths from TB could be short-lived as future funding could be in doubt.
Maharashtra govt’s TB program: In need of immediate modification for children (post)
Seven-month-old Mohamed Afaan’s declining weight and constant throwing up kept baffling his father Gufran Malik. The baby, a patient of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), was under the government-funded treatment regime of seven drugs daily crushed into four parts, but was barely responding to the treatment. In June, when his weight dropped to 3.5 kg, field counsellors rushed him to a private doctor. What the counsellors realised was that Afaan was being administered medicines under the government’s free Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) that his body could not handle.
Nigeria starts house-to-house search for TB cases in 22 states (post)
Concerned about its rising TB burden, Nigeria has started an active house-to-house search for new cases in the country.
Uganda Ministry of Health launches National TB Coordination Committee (post)
The Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng launched the National Coordination Committee (NCC) for Tuberculosis (TB) at the Ministry of Health (MoH) headquarters in Kampala. The NCC is composed of a membership of different stakeholders in the health sector who include MoH, Health Development Partners, laboratory technicians, Civil Society Organisations, religious organizations, the armed forces and pharmacists.
Tackling TB in India: Poor counselling, huge dropout rate hamper treatment (post)
Raju Ramchandra (20) represents everything that is wrong with the government-run Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). An orphan, his tuberculosis deteriorated to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) though he was healthy until 2015-end. Now with a shrunken form, the whites of his eyes enlarged and voice feeble, he says he could not register for RNTCP in Virar because he had no necessary identification proof.
India: Why aren't more TB patients getting the new life-saving drug? Geography is one reason (post)
Sexagenarian Shekhar Verma* lives in Faridabad, Haryana which is part of National Capital Region. A general store owner, he has developed resistance to many crucial antibiotics while being treated for tuberculosis for the last couple of years. The doctor at the National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases told Verma that the only antibiotic that has high success for patients like him is Bedaquiline. But he cannot get Bedaquiline under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, government’s tuberculosis control programme.
What India needs to do to win the fight against TB (post)
The way forward is to invest in TB control, take public health benefits – free drugs and testing – to the unknown number of privately-treated patients.
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