Items tagged with TB programs
Kenya launches TB isolation policy (post)
On 25 June 2018, the Kenya National TB, Leprosy and Lung Disease Program (NLTP) launched the TB isolation policy as a result of over seven years of litigation, advocacy and follow up by people with TB, affected communities, civil society organisations, and human rights lawyers.
Major donor nixes effort to combat TB crisis in North Korea (post)
A fuse is about to be lit on an infectious disease powderkeg in northeast Asia. On 30 June, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will pull the plug on its grants to North Korea, which has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The pullout leaves the isolated nation with about 1 year to line up a new source of medicines and diagnostics to combat a deepening TB crisis.
WHO urges Kenya to increase domestic investment to eradicate TB (post)
NAIROBI, July 4 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday urged Kenya to increase its domestic investment in Tuberculosis (TB) in order to eradicate the disease.
TB news from India (post)
The state of the national TB response in India.
Canada's indifference to tuberculosis has put Inuit at great risk (post)
A recent government commitment could turn the tide on systemic neglect that has allowed TB to continue to exist.
HIV-TB connection: key to ending infections (post)
- A group of teenage boys huddle around Michelle in the mangroves behind Joyce Bay, a spot frequented by men who have sex with men (MSM) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Former patients aid search for missing TB cases in DRC province (post)
In the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the impacts of military conflict fuel the spread of disease while challenging health service access, obstacles to finding undiagnosed people sick with — and at risk of transmitting — tuberculosis are matched only by the urgency to do so.
Initiative 5% of Expertise France launches call on operational research focused entirely on TB (post)
For the first time the Initiative 5% of Expertise France has launched a call on operational research (OR) focused entirely on TB. This presents opportunities for OR on prevention and care of TB and MDR-TB in all the 47 eligible countries. Amongst others, projects could look at scalable strategies for testing and treating active and latent TB and the use of innovative shorter regimens for MDR-TB. Total funds available are EUR 4 million, and a single project may be funded up to EUR 1 Million.
Why India must discard fear, give some TB patients ‘game-changing’ drug (post)
Like South Africa, India should immediately make available the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline – till now used as a drug of last resort – to nearly 147,000 Indians with a multidrug-resistant version of the disease, a leading South African TB-HIV researcher told IndiaSpend.
WHO: 18 Nigerians die every hour from TB (post)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that with 18 persons dying every hour from tuberculosis in Nigeria, the country now has the second highest burden of the disease in Africa, and the seven highest globally.
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