Items tagged with TB programs
South Korea’s plan to fight TB full of blind spots: experts (post)
To shake off the shameful image of South Korea having the highest incidence rate of tuberculosis among OECD member countries, the government recently unveiled a new plan to prevent TB outbreaks in mass facilities.
TB elimination in the United States — the need for renewed action (post)
Once called “the captain of all these men of death,” tuberculosis continues to kill 1.8 million people globally each year. In 2014, the World Health Assembly embraced an ambitious resolution to reduce deaths from tuberculosis by 95% by 2035. But despite such global concern, tuberculosis has all but vanished from the U.S. public’s mind as a perceived threat. Although this lack of attention is understandable, given the substantial decrease in disease burden over the past several decades, it jeopardizes the prospect of tuberculosis elimination in the United States — a goal established by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1989. Critical ethical and policy questions must be addressed if elimination is to be pursued in earnest.
India: ‘Reporting of TB cases a must’ (post)
With many private doctors not notifying tuberculosis cases despite rules under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme to the Health Department, the State government issued a Government Order making it mandatory for all private doctors in India to report and notify every TB case.
Georgia on the frontlines of tackling drug-resistant TB — a photo story (post)
Georgia continues to struggle with tuberculosis (TB), today’s leading infectious disease killer, and its drug-resistant forms. The homeless, unemployed, migrants, prisoners, and people who excessively consume alcohol are among the most affected. But the good news is that the number of people suffering from drug-resistant TB has dropped over the past few years largely due to the arrival of new medicines. The first drugs to be developed in almost half a century — bedaquiline and delamanid — now offer the opportunity to treat multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) more quickly and effectively.
Delamanid to be introduced in India (post)
New Delhi, Oct 4 - Concerned over the rising number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in the country, the health ministry will introduce a new drug in a “controlled manner”.
India’s ambitious new plan to conquer TB needs cash and commitment (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people today than HIV and malaria combined.
TB and MDR-TB diagnosis goes the 'Make in India' way (post)
India, with its high tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) burden, has long been looking for an affordable, high-sensitivity test to be used in the most peripheral health facilities with least technical complexity, minimal infrastructure and training. To address the issue, the state health department has now come up with a cost-effective measure of using 'Make in India' initiative to identify TB cases.
MAP-IT tool helps make decisions on childhood TB interventions investments (post)
Childhood TB is a major issue, infecting up to one million children each year. The good news is that there are several effective diagnostic, treatment, and prevention strategies that can have a major impact on decreasing the burden of childhood TB and mortality. These include interventions like contact tracing, fixed-dose medication, and rapid testing. We must consider however, that not every strategy is going to be equally effective in every context. What works well in Kenya may not be as effective in India and vice-versa. With limited resources at our disposal, how do we decide which intervention approach to invest our efforts in? How do we make sure that the options we select will have the best evidence-based impact on child TB morbidity and mortality in the country we’re working in?
Mitigating the financial effects of TB requires more than expansion of services (post)
In The Lancet Global Health, Stéphane Verguet and colleagues report a modelling study of the effects of expanding TB services on averting catastrophic costs to TB-affected households in India and South Africa. They assessed three different scenarios of TB control: improved treatment of drug-sensitiveTB; improved treatment of multidrug-resistant TB; and expanded access to services (all individuals who seek care being screened for TB symptoms; South Africa only). The outcomes were compared with a base case, which assumed that coverage and treatment success rates at start of the study would be maintained at a constant from 2016 to 2035. They used extended cost-effectiveness analysis as a complement to their model to estimate the differential effects of the scenarios across socioeconomic quintiles.
Commitment, effort key to making China world leader in TB control (post)
Between 1990 and 2010, China halved the number of new tuberculosis infections within its borders - achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goal for TB five years ahead of schedule.
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