Items tagged with TB programs
TB eradication programmes must address malnutrition, poverty and unemployment (post)
At Jan Swasthya Sahyog, a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh, we see numerous cases of tuberculosis every year, but it is becoming increasingly clear that our approach to the epidemic is all wrong. We recently took care of a 22-year-old patient we will call Leela Satnami.
WHO statistics: Has TB come to stay in Nigeria? (post)
Governments of over 163 countries in 2015 promised to end TB by 2030; however, as the current rate of TB declines to 1.5 per cent, reports indicate that a remarkable increase of over 10 per cent of funding by 2025 globally would be required if the target is to be met by 2030. This is as the World Health Organization (WHO) recently ranked Nigeria as the country with highest cases of TB in Africa. Kehinde Osasona examines Nigeria’s precarious situation. Read his report here.
TB response is heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (post)
The Stop TB Partnership Secretariat organized a rapid assessment of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic and related measures have on the TB response in 20 high burden countries that represent 54% of the global TB burden, through interviews with National TB Programs (NTPs) and focal points based on a set of open-ended questions. Similarly, the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) did a worldwide survey through their network of members collecting answers from TB civil society and communities from 16 countries, with data updated regularly.
India’s focus on coronavirus leaves TB and HIV patients adrift (post)
The lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 has made it difficult for people with other diseases to access the medicines they need to survive.
Coronavirus lockdown complicates Philippines's fight against TB (post)
Campaign to end TB in the country sidelined as healthcare workers fight to contain spread of pandemic.
India: COVID-19 pandemic impact on TB response (post)
News coverage of COVID-19 pandemic impact on national TB response in India:
Can we co-opt the fight against COVID-19 with that of TB? (post)
An op-ed published in The Wire Science discusses how ‘covidisation’ of the health system in India has impacted the other 'killers', especially TB.
Cost of pandemic includes setbacks to South Africa TB testing, diagnoses (post)
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average there were tested for tuberculosis with the rapid and reliable Xpert diagnostic tool each week. An average of more than 3,700 of those tests identified active tuberculosis in people who could then access treatment. In the weeks that followed, as the government closed schools and restricted international travel as well as mass gatherings, before launching what Reuters news service called “one of the world’s toughest lockdowns,” restricting all but essential movement from home, and bringing public transportation to a virtual standstill, the numbers of people accessing the rapid test for tuberculosis dropped by nearly half, with an average of a little more than 24,000 tests a week. The accompanying decline in the resulting number of tuberculosis diagnoses was “less dramatic,” than the testing drop, an analysis from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases notes, likely because people feeling sick with advanced disease were more motivated to overcome the restrictions on movement to seek care. Still tuberculosis diagnoses dropped by 33%.
Indonesians prefer costly private clinics for TB care (post)
A preference by Indonesians to seek initial care for tuberculosis (TB) at private clinics rather than public facilities is resulting in diagnostic delays and escalated costs, says a new study.
India: COVID-19 and forgotten enemy TB (post)
COVID-19 is now a pandemic affecting 89,21,618 people; 4,66,850 confirmed deaths and has already spread to 216 countries globally on June 21, 2020. India is the fourth most heavily affected country worldwide behind the US, Brazil and Russia. As on June 21; 4,11,727 people are affected, 13,277 have died and many more are living with fear of COVID-19 disease and death in India. India is fighting a battle today against COVID-19. The battle has brought the country almost to a standstill leading to major medical, social and economic problems.
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