Items tagged with TB programs
Documentary: Two Countries, Two Choices: India, South Africa and the struggle against MDR-TB (post)
A new documentary film by AIDS-Free World: The drugs bedaquiline and delamanid can mean the difference between life and death for people suffering from the worst and most noxious strain of TB in the world, multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). The government of India has restricted access to the drugs for its 140,000 MDR-TB sufferers. South Africa has made a different choice for 20,000 MDR-TB patients. The consequences are profound.
South African Deputy President reaffirms determination to end TB by 2030 (post)
Deputy President David Mabuza on Friday (September 7) reaffirmed the government’s determination to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030.
Message to world leaders: we cannot end TB without addressing the social and economic burden of the disease (post)
A comment published in The Lancet Global Health presented evidence for and underscored the importance of social protection interventions in ending TB.
India: Why TB, HIV control programs may not be combined (post)
New Delhi, September 16 - The Centre’s long-pending plan to combine tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) control programmes may never happen.
North Korea establishes international fund to fight TB, malaria (post)
North Korea has set up an international fund to fight tuberculosis and malaria.
New study uncovers vast variation and significant deficits in TB care in urban India (post)
On September 26, Heads of State will gather in New York at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts to end TB and reach all affected people with prevention and care.
USAID-India End TB Alliance to eliminate tuberculosis (post)
The US and India have formed an alliance comprising leading experts in public and private sectors to combat the menace of tuberculosis, an American official said.
'A quintessential disease of poverty': The push to free Papua New Guinea from the chokehold of TB (post)
TB is a particular problem in Papua New Guinea. The national capital district has the highest incidence of multidrug-resistant TB in the world, with 1,300 cases per 100,000 of the population.
Without better private-sector care, India cannot eliminate TB by 2025 (post)
Jaipur, Rajasthan: Only 35% cases of tuberculosis (TB)--an infectious air-borne bacterial disease that mostly affects the lungs--were handled correctly by the private healthcare sector in Mumbai and Patna between November 2014 and August 2015, according to a new study.
Private provider engagement led to 10-fold increase in Mumbai TB case detection (post)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, October 26 – In Mumbai, the largest city in the world’s highest TB burden country, more than half of people living with active tuberculosis disease go undetected and undiagnosed every year. Much of the failure to adequately detect TB cases stems from a dependence on the private sector for health care – more than 70 percent of Mumbai’s TB patients seek care in the private sector. It is a sector that is plagued by suboptimal quality issues, Lal Sadasivan with PATH said here today.
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