Items tagged with TB programs
Yogan Pillay: integrating TB and HIV care in South Africa (post)
South Africa has the highest burden of HIV-associated TB. In an interview published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Yogan Pillay tells how the health ministry has brought the two programmes and services together.
Why is the Global Fund pulling out of North Korea? (post)
This past week, the world watched in amazement as the leaders of the two Koreas met, shook hands and stepped over the dividing line between the two countries. People all over the world sighed with relief at the easing of tensions.
Business has key role in PNG's war on TB (post)
There are 35,000 new cases of tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea each year and the business community has been urged to play a proactive role in stamping it out.
Managing MDR tuberculosis in Nepal (post)
The burden of multidrug and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis might be underevaluated among Nepalis, threatening bordering countries. Sophie Cousins reports from Kathmandu.
Strategic plan to help eliminate TB launched in Zambia (post)
HEALTH Minister Chitalu Chilufya has said the newly launched National Tuberculosis Strategic Plan and Programme Guideline will enhance TB detection and help reduce TB related deaths from the current 17, 000 to 10, 000 by 2021.
African meeting highlights need for increased political leadership in efforts to end TB (post)
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s “Voices”: Spreading Ideas to Help End TB
TB news from India (post)
The state of the national TB response in India.
Kenya embarks on new approach to prioritize future TB actions (post)
The Ministry of Health, Kenya, has embarked on a new, robust approach to evaluate evidence for informing the next National Strategic Plan on Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Health (2019-2023). A workshop, convened from April 17- 19 2018, reviewed consolidated national data and incorporated the extensive evidence base of critical studies and surveys on the TB situation. This was done to identify root causes of the epidemic, establish priorities and map out future actions.
Why do so many South Africans die of TB? (post)
GroundUp featured a three-part series on TB which kills over 100,000 South Africans every year.
Nigeria’s struggle with ending TB stigma (post)
Abuja, 22 May 2018 – In March 2017, Sunny who works as a fashion designer in Abuja, Nigeria’s Capital, started coughing, experiencing chest pains, toe pain, and frequent headaches. The discomfort that came with these symptoms became unbearable and was beginning to affect his work so he decided to go to the hospital for a checkup. To his surprise he tested positive for Tuberculosis (TB) when the results were out.
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