Items tagged with TB programs
Mobile clinics to improve TB diagnosis and treatment in remote areas in Sudan (post)
Since 2005, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM) has been supporting national efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as well as strengthen health systems in Sudan. Investing around 400 million USD, the project has achieved great milestones in the fight against these diseases during the past 12 years.
User experience analysis of e-TB Manager, a nationwide electronic TB recording and reporting system in Ukraine (post)
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Screening for TB in an urban shelter for homeless in Switzerland: a prospective study (post)
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Zimbabwe’s Vice President and Minister of Health sign Barcelona Declaration and commit to ending TB and HIV-TB (post)
On 28 April 2017, Zimbabwe’s Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr David Parirenyatwa signed the Barcelona Declaration on tuberculosis (TB) and the localised Bulawayo Declaration on HIV-TB to demonstrate the government’s commitment to ending the two diseases by 2030.
TB-free India: J P Nadda formulates strategy to eliminate TB by 2025 (post)
India on Friday (May 19) pledged its commitment to eliminate TB by 2025, five years ahead of the global goal to reduce the number of such deaths by 90 per cent by 2030. Speaking at the 29th meeting of Stop TB Partnership coordination committee, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said that India has formulated a national strategic plan with a special focus on stamping out the bactrial disease at grass root levels.
ECDC: Systematic review on the diagnosis, treatment, care and prevention of TB in prison settings (post)
People in prisons have a higher prevalence of several communicable diseases than the general population.
Achieving TB milestones through last mile delivery in India (post)
India has the world’s largest burden of tuberculosis. The government has recently committed to raise TB as a national priority. With such a colossal burden, India may do well to scale up its promising health innovations. In a GHPC blog, Deen Garba describes how one organization in India, Operation ASHA, has used last mile delivery to make gains in TB.
Swaziland conducts joint HIV/TB/PMTCT and viral hepatitis program review (post)
Mbabane, Swaziland 25 May - The Kingdom of Swaziland completed a two weeks long first ever joint review of four programmes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis (TB), Viral Hepatitis prevention and control as well as Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT). This is in line with the country’s plan to strengthen integration of the four programmes. Currently the programmes have separate strategic plans. For example: the HIV Health Sector Response Plan runs from 2014 – 2018 and the TB National Strategic Plan runs from 2015 – 2019. However all the strategic plans are aligned to the National Health Sector Strategic Plan (NHSSP 2013 – 2018).
Powerful campaign shows tobacco use fuelling India's TB epidemic (post)
New Delhi [India], May 31 : The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the world's first national tobacco control mass media campaign to warn people of the increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and dying from TB associated with smoking cigarettes or bidis, or being exposed to second-hand smoke.
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