Items tagged with TB programs
Venezuela falls under the triple attack of HIV, TB and malaria (post)
April 13, 2019: In 2017, the Canadian-based International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and Venezuelan NGO Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI) released the first “Triple Threat” Bulletin, an X-ray on Venezuela’s health crisis, specifically on tuberculosis (TBC), malaria and HIV. Back then, the findings were grim. You’d expect after a year, someone, and by “someone” I mean chavismo (who—as actioning government for the past two decades—is the sole responsible for the crisis) would have taken action to stop people from dying of preventable, treatable causes.
TB: India’s silent epidemic (post)
Aditi (name changed), 18, sat cross-legged on her private hospital bed in Kolkata. The black scarf covering her mouth did little to hide her emaciated face. Cheeks stained with long-dried tears, she stared at the ceiling unsure of whether she’d live or die – unsure of whether or not there was a real cure for her.
Nigeria: Patients relive ordeal as TB spreads, becomes untreatable (post)
TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming 18 Nigerian lives every hour and nearly 4,500 lives globally everyday.
TB cases on the rise in Pakistan (post)
ISLAMABAD, 16th Apr, 2019: The number of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) is increasing in Pakistan as estimated 27,000 new cases are reported every year in the country.
USAID's TB strategy as seen from Kyrgyzstan (post)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — When Eremina found out she had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2017 and was headed to hospital, she was convinced she’d never go home. Two of her relatives with TB had disappeared into decrepit old sanatoriums about 17 years ago, and they had spent years getting treatment before eventually dying there. “So I said goodbye to everyone,” she said.
The Philippines Department of Health and WHO call for 'all-out-war' against TB (post)
24 April 2019 | Manila: The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly call for an all-out-war against tuberculosis (TB), the number one infectious killer in the country. TB claims the lives of over 70 Filipinos every day. There are also one million Filipinos who have active TB disease, the third highest global prevalence rate next to South Africa and Lesotho.
Health systems performance in managing TB: analysis of TB care cascades among high-burden and non-high-burden countries (post)
A study published in Journal of Global Health analyzed different patterns and gaps of TB care along the care cascade across countries and developed a model to examine the relationship between performance of TB programs in high and low burden countries along the TB care cascade and TB disease burden.
Why TB remains a major issue in the Philippines — and how we can put an end to it (post)
Even with advancements to its treatment, tuberculosis continues to claim the lives of so many Filipinos. But as one doctor points out, there are a lot of factors that need to be addressed beyond technological limitations: public and private dissonance, faulty medical practices, and widespread stigma.
Nigeria, USAID sign pact to accelerate TB response (post)
The Federal Ministry of Health and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed an agreement to accelerate response to tuberculosis aimed at ending the public health challenge in Nigeria.
Indian government plans to end discrimination at work against those battling TB (post)
The policy recognises that most workers spend most of their waking hours at their places of work and a non-discriminatory environment enables the uptake of screening and treatment by employees.
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