Items tagged with TB programs

Fight against TB in Papua New Guinea bolstered by US$ 15 million (post)

WASHINGTON D.C., May 31, 2017 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a credit of US$15 million (PGK48 million) to support on-going efforts in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to combat the country’s growing tuberculosis epidemic.

TB India 2017: RNTCP annual status report (post)

Launch of the QuanTB eCourse - a free, self-paced course for health professionals using QuanTB (post)

8 June 2017 - The USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program announced the launch of the QuanTB eCourse - a free, self-paced course for health professionals using QuanTB.

Tackling TB in the Asia Pacific (post)

Tuberculosis is the number one cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. While Australia has one of the lowest rates of tuberculosis globally, more than half of the world's multidrug-resistant cases are found throughout countries in our region. And Australians are playing a critical role in trying to end the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030.

South Africa is making progress against its most deadly disease (post)

South Africa is making progress against tuberculosis (TB) but much more needs to be done. This was the message presented by Dr Nazir Ismail, the head of the Centre for Tuberculosis at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD). He was speaking at the South African Aids Conference in Durban on Wednesday.

ICMR to begin research for intensified case finding for pulmonary TB in institutional healthcare settings (post)

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will soon begin research for Intensified Case Finding (ICF) for pulmonary tuberculosis in institutional healthcare settings in the country.  For this purpose, ICMR on behalf of India TB Research Consortium has solicited Letters of Interest (LoI) from interested institutes or organizations in the area of implementation research for TB for a large multi-centric project for which protocol has been developed by the ICMR.

India: Aadhaar made mandatory for TB patients seeking cash assistance from the government (post)

The government has made Aadhaar compulsory for tuberculosis patients and health providers seeking cash assistance under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. The nationwide programme is administered online through a web-based application called Nikshay. All government and private healthcare providers are supposed to register TB patients using Nikshay.

Vietnam: Combined treatment lifts TB/HIV patient burdens (post)

A Ministry of Health (MoH) pilot programme to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels has yielded positive results, experts said.

For decades, India has under-invested in TB control, says Madhukar Pai (post)

India has not delivered because of poor investment and weak implementation, says Pai.

What killed half a million Indians? (post)

In an op-ed published in The New York Times Pranay Sinha and Scott Heysell reflect on the Indian national TB response.