Items tagged with TB programs

Study indicates that acting on guidelines could avert half of TB cases among children (post)

Tracing contacts of people confirmed to be sick with tuberculosis and making preventive treatment available to those at risk for the disease, could halve current numbers of TB cases among children in resource limited settings, according to researchers reporting a study of patients across a Kenya rural province.

WHO and USAID release guide to support countries in developing national action plans on public-private mix for TB prevention and care (post)

23 February, Geneva - The World Health Organization and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have released a new guide to help countries strategically and systematically scale-up the engagement of all care providers in TB prevention and care. The Guide to develop a national action plan on Public-Private Mix (PPM) – is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong public-private mix (PPM) components into national TB strategic plans that are the basis for Global Fund proposals and national budgeting processes.

India: State govt to offer monetary benefits for private sector TB doctors and patients (post)

The social stigma attached with tuberculosis (TB) is the prime reason why most patients prefer taking treatment from private doctors. The public health department, therefore, is unable to identify the actual number of TB patients in the state.

Integrating TB and antimicrobial resistance control programmes (post)

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Can India eliminate TB by 2025? (post)

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is set against major challenges as it looks to achieving its ambitious target of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, five years ahead of the global target.

Venezuela’s health system in disarray amid economic crisis, survey shows; TB cases increase significantly (post)

Failing to notify TB cases can land doctors in jail. But will this help India eliminate the disease? (post)

Doctors, pharmacists, chemists and laboratory staff will face jail time if they fail to notify tuberculosis cases to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, according to a notification issued by the ministry on March 16. The government aims to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025. To do so, it plans to identify infected patients and also screen people who have been in contact with them for symptoms of the disease.

Peru government to invest more than 140 mln soles to fight against TB (post)

The Peruvian Claudio Espinoza Choquepura, world champion of mathematics in 2003, showed this last Monday a great improvement in his fight to overcome tuberculosis that afflicts him. 

A day in the life of India's 'TB warrior' (post)

On World TB Day, public health specialist Chapal Mehra describes the work of Dr Zarir Udwadia, who has been working tirelessly to fight the disease in its often untreatable forms.

Unitaid and South Africa partner to accelerate HIV and TB prevention and treatment (post)

Pretoria, 23 March 2018 – Unitaid and South Africa’s National Department of Health have launched a partnership to accelerate the country’s efforts to prevent and treat HIV and tuberculosis. South Africa is home to the world’s biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as one of the highest TB burdens.