Items tagged with TB programs
Canada: Inuit organization releases strategy to eliminate TB by 2030 (post)
Canada’s national Inuit organization released Monday its strategy to eliminate by 2030 the “staggeringly high rates” of tuberculosis (TB) among Inuit leaving in a vast region of the Canadian Arctic stretching from the Labrador Sea in the east to the Beaufort Sea in the west.
Anchored in human rights (post)
Instead of surveillance technologies, help TB patients by providing rights-based interventions
Social intervention in Brazil increases rate of TB cure by 7.6% (post)
The Bolsa Familia Programme — a conditional cash transfer program in Brazil — directly affects tuberculosis treatment outcomes, demonstrating a 7.6% higher rate of cure, according to findings published in The Lancet Global Health.
Fighting TB: Databases are new and powerful weapons (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 global causes of death. It is caused by bacteria that first settle in the lungs and spread through the air and is passed on when a person with an active infection coughs or sneezes. People can also pass on TB when they are not themselves sick, if they have a “sleeping” or “latent” infection.
60 people die of TB in Kenya everyday (post)
At least 60 people in Kenya die of TB everyday, an advocacy group has said.
Glimmers of hope: moving towards better HIV and TB treatment in eastern Europe (post)
Eastern Europe continues to have one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the worst linkage to care of any region in the world, last week's meeting on Standard of Care for HIV and Coinfections in Europe heard.
Multidrug-resistant TB successfully treated with new approaches in conflict-affected region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (post)
PITTSBURGH – A high proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases can be cured in conflict-affected communities with molecular diagnostics, shorter treatment periods and socioeconomic incentives, according to the results of a large, long-term study in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Stellenbosch Universityin South Africa, in collaboration with the DRC National Tuberculosis Program.
India’s goal of ending TB by 2025 will be a tough task, says Global Fund (post)
-- India has shown remarkable leadership in acknowledging that there is a big problem with TB
-- India is critically important to the global fight against diseases, but particularly TB
76% of TB cases in Nigeria undetected (post)
Dr Adebola Lawanson, the National Coordinator, National Tuberculosis Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy Control Programme, has disclosed that out of every estimated 100 persons with TB, only 24 are detected in Nigeria.
TB outreach in Bulgaria post Global Fund – a guessing game? (post)
On 14th and 15th of February, TB Europe Coalition organised a two-day advocacy workshop for civil society organisations and activists from all around Bulgaria. The workshop aimed to build and strengthen coordination amongst tuberculosis (TB) interested civil society organisations and activists ahead of the withdrawal of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Global Fund) from the country.
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