Items tagged with TB programs
Implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for TB in Mongolia: a qualitative exploration of barriers and enablers (post)
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The challenges of treating drug-resistant TB in India (post)
'Be prepared to take medicines for a long, long time.' Once considered a 'disease of the past', TB has had a resurgence.
BMC’s door-to-door scan to combat TB starts on August 1 (post)
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) public health department will conduct a door-to-door active case finding (ACF) campaign for tuberculosis (TB) control. Starting from August 1, teams will visit households in over 70 areas identified by the civic body and look for people with symptoms of TB.
Pakistan offers a paradigm shift to provide citizens a full package of TB care (post)
24 July 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership congratulates the Pakistan Ministry of Health, National TB Programme, Provincial TB Programmes, and partners for demonstrating how to deliver higher standards of TB care in high TB burden settings in order to rapidly reduce suffering and TB deaths.
The dynamic of TB case finding in the era of the public–private mix strategy for TB control in Central Java, Indonesia (post)
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1 Indian dies of TB every minute, no one is immune, says expert (post)
New Delhi: About 8,000 patients pass through Dr Zarir F Udwadia’s busy clinic every year. The patients who are usually referred to him by colleagues from different parts of the country are difficult cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Study: Screening malnourished children for TB in high-burden countries would boost detection (post)
Fewer than half of countries with high rates of tuberculosis incidence surveyed in a recent study have guidelines recommending screening for the disease among children receiving services for malnutrition, even though having those guidelines, increasing case-finding among children, linking them to care, and tracking their contacts could lead to inroads against the leading infectious disease killer, according to authors of a report on the findings. The study gathered and analyzed malnutrition management guidelines from 17 countries with high rates of tuberculosis.
Deaths rates declined in South Africa due to HIV success – report (post)
Death rates have declined, largely due to successes in HIV, but a lot more needs to be done to defeat its “terrible twin”, tuberculosis (TB).
Drug-resistant TB a major concern in Ghana (post)
Ghanaian experts are concerned about the rising number of tuberculosis. The Ghana Health Service said 14,632 people were diagnosed with TB and put on treatment in 2015.
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