Items tagged with TB programs
The threat of TB in India requires an interdisciplinary, patient-centric response (post)
It’s been a few years but I clearly remember a visit to a chest ward in a hospital in Patna. Tuberculosis patients, their faces emaciated, lay on their beds, staring, coughing, in despair. These impoverished people had spent years and almost all of their savings on their treatment. A few of them, I was told by the hospital staff, had been abandoned, as their families could no longer afford the treatment.
Experts urge commitment to end TB in Nigeria (post)
Nigerian leaders must demonstrate political and financial commitment towards ending Tuberculosis (TB) in the country.
How is North Korea coping with TB one year after Global Fund grant cuts? (post)
MANILA — Advocates working to address the tuberculosis burden in North Korea are calling on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to resume its grants in the country in the next two months to ensure thousands of patients don’t fall out of treatment. The call comes just a few months before the fund's sixth replenishment conference in October.
India’s reliance on bedaquiline donations limits access to the key anti-TB drug (post)
On 24 March 2016, on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, JP Nadda, India’s health minister at the time, announced the launch of bedaquiline in India. Bedaquiline is a new anti-tuberculosis drug that works on patients with drug-resistant TB, or DR-TB. The government announced that it would be giving the drug for free, under a national programme to eliminate TB.
Indian government stalls payments to 26 lakh TB patients over suspicious transactions (post)
The Union health ministry has stopped transferring money under the cash for nutrition scheme over the past few weeks and has written to all states asking them to submit reports of any cases of fraudulent transfers.
PHA supplement: Operational research in Papua New Guinea (post)
Public Health Action (PHA) is the free access, online journal of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. The journal focuses on TB, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.
Global Fund board approves $41.7 million grant for North Korea TB-malaria work (post)
The board of Global Fund, an international aid financing organization, has approved a new $41.7 million grant for work related to tackling tuberculosis and malaria in North Korea, a spokesperson told NK News on Thursday (September 19).
Bangladesh commits to accelerating the response to end TB (post)
Race to End TB campaign launched in Bangladesh by Honourable Minister of Planning Mr M.A. Mannan.
Q&A: What South Africa has learned tackling TB (post)
Tuberculosis is one of South Africa’s biggest health challenges with 322,000 new cases diagnosed each year, about 3.4% of which have some form of drug-resistance.
N. Korea could face shortage of TB medications, Eugene Bell Foundation warns, announces expansion of TB control project in country (post)
NK News: North Korea could face major tuberculosis medication shortage, NGO warns
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