Items tagged with TB programs
Request for submission of Good Practices on implementation of the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region, 2016–2020 (post)
The Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region, 2016–2020 has been developed to operationalize the global WHO End TB Strategy in the regional context. The Plan sets a regional goal and targets for the care and control of TB and drug-resistant TB from 2016 to 2020. It is currently in a midway of its implementation.
India: Drive to find ‘hidden’ TB cases: Third round to cover rural areas in Pune (post)
Rural areas of Pune, for the first time, will be covered as part of the third round of the central government’s intensive drive to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) from the country by 2025. The drive, which will continue till December 18, will cover 24 districts in Maharashtra. The previous two rounds of the campaign were conducted in January and July this year, during which, over 15,000 more TB cases were detected from across the country.
Scepticism shrouds India’s TB target (post)
August and September were especially bad months for tuberculosis patients in Delhi.
Smartphones can help homeless and addicted patients complete TB treatment (post)
Monitoring patients taking anti-tuberculosis drugs using a smartphone video could improve treatment and cut NHS costs by two-thirds, according to new research.
Nigeria: Institute wants more TB treatment centres (post)
Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria has appealed to federal, state and local governments to provide more treatment centres for the management of drug resistant tuberculosis.
India: TB patients asked to submit Aadhaar for a compensation scheme that is yet to be finalised (post)
Sangeeta* has tuberculosis and has been on medication for more than a year. Recently, the government treatment provider who supplies her the medicines asked for her Aadhaar number and bank account number, which he said were needed to access compensation that the government is planning to give tuberculosis patients. Sangeeta has neither.
HeroRATs double their life-saving TB-detection in Tanzania (post)
APOPO’s pioneering HeroRATs expand to a total of 57 clinics and hospitals supported by Tanzania’s Health Authorities.
An inside look at Ukraine’s terrifying TB outbreak (post)
Strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis are spreading across Ukraine, where armed conflict and market misgivings are making a bad situation even worse.
At nine deaths an hour, TB is winning in India’s largest state (post)
Low detections, a faulty system of diagnosis and a health department in denial are contributing to an alarming death rate from the disease in India's largest state.
Health system gaps fail Kenya TB patients (post)
Based on results of the 2016 Kenya Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, close to 140,000 people fall sick each year with TB.
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