Items tagged with TB programs
The Global Fund in China: Multidrug-resistant TB nationwide programmatic scale-up and challenges to transition to full country ownership (post)
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Ukraine's fight against TB is at risk from USAID cuts (post)
A United States Agency for International Development-funded digital health program to help Ukraine manage its growing drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic is a textbook example of effective foreign aid, according to health experts who worked on the project — but the country’s fight against the disease is now at risk from looming cuts to U.S. development aid.
Where health care won’t go: a TB crisis in the Black Belt (post)
An article published in Harper's Magazine discribes a TB outbreak in the United States in Marion, Alabama.
"... Marion, a town of 3,500..., has been grappling with a historic outbreak of a disease that has vanished from worry in much of the United States. Thirty-four active cases have been found; if that doesn’t seem like a lot, consider that the rate of infection — what the World Health Organization uses to determine severity — is almost a hundred times the national average, and higher than the rates in India, Kenya, and Haiti. Nearly 200 more in Marion were discovered to have latent tuberculosis, meaning that they were infected but had not developed active symptoms... "
Migrant TB patient needs and health system response along the Thailand–Myanmar border (post)
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Nigeria adopts shorter treatment for drug-resistant TB (post)
Nigeria has adopted a new regimen that reduces the time required for the treatment of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) from 20 months to about nine months.
Vietnam to wipe out TB in 2030 (post)
Vietnam will wipe out tuberculosis in 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at the 60th anniversary of the Hanoi-based Central Lung Hospital, five years earlier than many nations in the world.
Recovery time TBD: Tuberculosis and the fight for global health (post)
When considering disease endemics in the developing world, the focus falls most commonly on HIV and malaria. Attention is rarely turned to tuberculosis (TB), a far deadlier disease that annually kills more people than the aforementioned two combined, with 1.8 million deaths in 2015, alone. It is a disease which has existed in some form or another for millennia. From the instructional histories of Hippocrates to the grim tales of Dostoyevsky, tuberculosis (or “consumption” in pre-germ theory literary works) has ravened the poor and destitute. Despite best attempts by modern medicine, the disease is far from eradicated.
Why India’s TB control is faltering: Poor diagnostics, drug supply disruptions and no counselling (post)
India’s tuberculosis control programme is not fully equipped to prevent, diagnose, and treat patients. The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program uses outdated diagnostic techniques, suffers from repeated medicine stock-outs and lacks capacity to counsel tuberculosis patients, according to the Out of Step report released by the Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières last week.
Ghana aims to end TB by 2030 (post)
11 June 2017- Ghana aims to end Tuberculosis (TB) and it related lung diseases by 2030, with the introduction of a new sophisticated diagnostic technology known as the GeneXpert by the end of the year.
Iraq suffering one of highest rate of TB in region (post)
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has one of the highest rates of Tuberculosis (TB) in the region, with over 15,000 people affected in the country annually, says a report by the Iraqi government and the United Nations.
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