Items tagged with TB programs
New publication about community-based TB screening policies in the 30 'high-burden' countries (post)
Worldwide, 30 countries account for almost 90% of the global tuberculosis burden. Ending tuberculosis will require early detection of people with TB, and active case-finding is one strategy for doing so. In this new study researchers at the Department of Global Public Health sheds light on policies for active case-finding in the 30 high TB burden countries, and the gap between policy and practice.
COVID-19 has diverted scientific attention from killer diseases like TB: Harsh Vardhan (post)
The molecular diagnostic capacity of the country has increased multi-fold. These multi-platform devices based on cartridge and chip-based technology can decentralise TB diagnosis, the minister said.
TB: Experts advocate community involvement as deaths exceed 0.1 million in Nigeria (post)
As this year winds down, more than 100,000 would have lost their lives to tuberculosis, according to the global TB statistic from the World Health Organization.
TDR and WHO launch a new digital health research toolkit for TB care (post)
TDR, in partnership with the World Health Organization Global TB Program, has developed an interactive web-based toolkit that supports national TB programs and other partners to conduct implementation research designed to evaluate digital technologies for TB care.
South Africa’s TB tests drop over 30% due to COVID-19 – worse outcomes predicted for life-threatening disease (post)
One of South Africa’s foremost tuberculosis (TB) researchers, Dr Francesca Conradie, a principal investigator at the Clinical HIV Research Unit (CHRU), has called for a renewed focus on TB testing in South Africa to help find new TB cases that ‘went missing’ during the Covid-19 lockdown. TB testing, the mainstay of SA’s TB programme, took a severe knock during lockdown which has left many South Africans with undiagnosed TB. “We need to find them,” she says.
North Korea is about to exhaust its tuberculosis drug supply, experts warn (post)
North Korea has yet to report a single case of COVID-19—a remarkable success that, if true, the nation achieved after severing links with the outside world. But that isolation could soon exact a steep toll in other areas of public health: Humanitarian groups warn the isolated country is facing eroding food security, and they are bracing for a rapid spread of tuberculosis (TB), as supplies of first-line drugs against more treatable strains are expected to run out this month.
Tuberculosis in Ireland — a lesson from history (post)
THE Covid-19 crisis is not the very first time that contagious disease has existed and lessons can be learned from how the Irish government got to grips with a tuberculosis crisis in 1940s Ireland.
It’s vital to prioritise TB preventive therapy for almost a million South Africans – right now (post)
If tuberculosis is to be eradicated by 2035, enhanced strategies for preventing close contacts of TB patients from developing the disease are urgently needed as an essential service in the healthcare system.
India has a large underweight population with TB – and the COVID-19 crisis is only making it worse (post)
The country needs to fast track direct benefit transfer payments and clear the backlog to ensure tuberculosis patients are not left in a lurch.
The absolute imperative of identifying and notifying cases of TB (post)
As we approach Valentine’s Day let us resolve to be compassionate and kind, spread solidarity and love in our work, ensure that nobody is stigmatized regardless of any consideration and not ostracize patients if they suffer from a communicable diseases like Tuberculosis. Above all let us resolve to speak up, stand up and step up our efforts for a brighter future for our children in a world free of Tuberculosis. And while gearing up efforts in that direction we must not forget the high proportion of our children suffering from Tuberculosis. To identify and cure those children represents the best manifestation of our love for them.
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