Items tagged with TB programs
India needs a stronger strategy to save its failing fight against TB (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death in the world. Each year, it infects over eight million people and, despite being curable, kills nearly two million globally. A majority of the TB burden is borne by developing countries, mainly India. India has the highest incidence of TB, having reported 2.8 million new cases and 4,80,000 deaths in 2015, more than a quarter of the global share. Cases of drug-resistant TB in patients have also increased in recent times, with 2015 seeing a rise by 11 percent from the previous year. Unfortunately, only 59 percent of the patients receive treatment in India.
Location, location, location: tuberculosis services in highest burden countries (post)
Early diagnosis of tuberculosis and rapid treatment initiation are crucial for tuberculosis care and for interrupting transmission and require delivery of tuberculosis care services where most patients seek initial care. In most countries, National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs) are expected to have basic tuberculosis diagnosis by use of smear microscopy available at the primary care level, via a network of microscopy centres. However, there is little published information on where latent tuberculosis and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diagnostic and treatment services are exactly available in the highest tuberculosis burden countries.
Economic cost of non-adherence to TB medicines resulting from stock-outs and loss to follow-up in the Philippines (post)
One of the key elements of successful tuberculosis (TB) control programs is adherence to treatment, and this is a cornerstone of most international and national policies and guidelines. Non-adherence is often due to patient-related factors, but can also be a result of provider issues, such as stock-outs of TB medicines. Non-adherence results in increases in length and severity of illness, deaths, disease transmission, and drug resistance. These have economic consequences in terms of costs and loss of income for patients and their families and also costs to the health system.
Indian government to buy over 100 TB detection machines (post)
With thousands of tuberculosis patients going undiagnosed, the Union health ministry plans to purchase more than 100 additional Gene Xpert machines next year for speedier detection so that more people can be brought under the treatment net.
India: Doctor’s tenacity nudges government to overhaul TB program (post)
In the last six years, Haryana-based Dr Raman Kakar compiled a list of 5,300 cases where patients had a relapse of tuberculosis (TB) even after completing the full medication dose. He learnt that in several cases patients had completed full course of medication on six occasions but the disease still resuscitated, forcing them to seek another dose.
Hope for eradicating TB emerges in Peru slum (post)
Now halfway through his treatment for tuberculosis, William Campos, 49, is starting to imagine a healthy life again.
Govt committed to achieving zero tuberculosis deaths: J P Nadda (post)
The government is committed to achieving zero tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the country by ensuring affordable and quality healthcare to all, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said on Wednesday (December 7). He said this at a round-table for Members of Parliament, policy makers and eminent tuberculosis experts, hosted by the Global Coalition Against TB at Parliament House Annexe in New Delhi.
RNTBCP Nagaland launches 99 DOTS and IPT (post)
Kohima, December 12 (MExN): The Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTBCP) Nagaland has become one of the states in India to launch the 99 DOTS (Daily Anti TB Treatment) for TB and HIV co-infected patients and IPT (Isoniazid Preventative Therapy) for PLHIV on December 9 at NHAK Conference hall.
What can this Peru slum teach the world about stopping the spread of TB? (post)
For Jasmin Bueno, aged seven, and her brother Aaron, aged six, there is little that can make swallowing chemo-profilactic pills any less bitter. But the tablets they stoically gulp down daily during the next six months are the best protection they can get from contracting tuberculosis.
Indian government's response sought on TB medicines usage (post)
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday (January 13) sought the government’s response on a plea that the existing stocks of tuberculosis medicine be utilised for giving daily doses to patients.
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