Items tagged with TB programs

TB Quarterly Update: Innovative approaches to finding and treating missing people with TB (post)

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria released the second edition of the TB Quarterly Update. It is produced on a quarterly basis to share information on the achievements, tools, guidance, best practices and highlights of the TB Strategic Initiative and other TB-related activities.

Public health catastrophe looms in Ukraine, experts warn (post)

March 26, 2022: A convoy of five vans snaked slowly on Friday from the battered Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, toward Chernihiv, in the northeast of the country. On board were generators, clothes, fuel — and medications needed to treat H.I.V.

After COVID, India tries to get on top of TB (post)

Mumbai (AFP) – When Covid-19 ripped through India in 2020-21, several million people are thought to have died. Desperate efforts to stem the pandemic hurt the battle against another huge killer: tuberculosis.

The state of the regional and national TB responses (post)

WHO webinar: End TB E-learning platform (post)

The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 5 May 2022 to present the new WHO's End TB E-learning platform providing access to the new WHO e-courses on TB preventive treatment, TB diagnostics and drug-resistant TB. A question and answer session will also be offered.

Invest in tobacco control to end TB in Indonesia (post)

Over 61.4 million people in Indonesia smoke, with 65% of all adult men smoking. In 2020, the Joint External Monitoring Mission on Tuberculosis (TB) for Indonesia found that 36% of all TB cases (about 300,000 TB cases) were attributable to tobacco smoking. In response, The Union in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Association of All Indonesian Health Offices (ADINKES) and Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT) organised a high-level meeting under the theme “Invest in Tobacco Control to END Tuberculosis”.

WHO launches a second report of country success stories in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services (post)

27 April 2022 | Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme is pleased to share its second report of country success stories in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services.   

India planned to eliminate TB by 2025, but it’s estimated half a million Indians are still dying from it every year (post)

In India in 2021, an estimated 504,000 people died from tuberculosis, or TB. That’s almost one per minute. More than a quarter of the estimated TB cases worldwide are in India.

South Africa: How do we make an HIV and TB plan that has greater impact? (post)

There is good reason to be sceptical about the link between healthcare policy and implementation in South Africa. Policies such as those on mental health and palliative care, for example, may be good on paper but have generally gone unimplemented. The Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry is arguably one of the most impressive and thorough investigations into a set of healthcare issues in recent years but most of the HMI report’s recommendations are gathering dust.

India: TB activists start monthly meetings to resolve issues faced by TB patients (post)

Mumbai: With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic causing a setback for the country’s programme to eliminate tuberculosis (TB), non-government organisations (NGO), TB activists, survivors, and officers will hold a meeting every month to discuss the needs and challenges of its treatment in the country.