Items tagged with TB programs

Latent TB infection remains a public health threat in Bangladesh (post)

Experts emphasize that raising awareness and promoting a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce the risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), which continues to pose a major public health threat in Bangladesh.

South Africa: Why is the Northern Cape missing its TB targets? (post)

In March this year, the director-general of the Northern Cape government, Justice Bekebeke during a parliamentary oversight visit acknowledged that about 80% of the health facilities in the province did not meet their TB performance targets of finding TB cases and ensuring successful (completed) treatment.

Like COVID-19, research and innovation could help eliminate TB in India (post)

India’s political leadership has made tremendous commitment to end tuberculosis in India. But the question remains: Can India end tuberculosis without innovation, new strategies, and technologies backed by evidence?

Kenya steps up its war against drug-resistant TB (post)

It started in early 2022, with a feeling of general body weakness and sickness, then came the weight loss, fever and night sweats that alarmed Laura Amollo. Several visits to health centres in the Eastlands area of Nairobi left both patient and health workers puzzled.

Can taking two pills a week slow down TB in South Africa? There’s a new plan in place (post)

• No other disease in South Africa kills as many people as tuberculosis (TB). To change this, the health department has a new plan for curbing TB infections.

• Until now, only people with HIV and children under five could get preventive medicines. But the new guidelines say anyone who has a big chance of getting infected because they are in contact with someone who has TB, can get the pills.

• Preventive treatment can help to stop infections from spreading, but it needs to be part of a bigger strategy if it is to really get us closer to ending TB.

In 2005, when Busisiwe Beko suspected that she was pregnant, she headed to her local clinic for a test. Beko got more than she bargained for: she tested positive for HIV too.

President Joko Widodo shows strong leadership, announces package of interventions to end TB in Indonesia (post)

19 July 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - The Stop TB Partnership praises the strong leadership shown by Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and his government after they announced a package of interventions to strengthen their actions to fight Tuberculosis (TB).

Drug shortage shows Modi’s TB eradication dream needs more than just ambition (post)

In 2018, India articulated its noble ambition to eliminate TB by 2025, five years before the global target. But news reports show we aren’t even close to that goal.

South African men are much more likely to die from TB than women – here’s why (post)

Around the world, men are more likely to get TB and to die from it than women.

New operational guidance on adaptation and implementation of WHO's Multisectoral Accountability Framework to end TB (post)

20 September 2023 | New York The World Health Organization (WHO) has released Operational guidance for countries to support the  adaptation and implementation of the Multisectoral Accountability Framework to end TB (MAF-TB). It provides practical advice on key approaches and interventions needed to establish the MAF-TB at the national and local levels with concrete country examples and best practices.

Why India must differentiate between normal and high-risk TB patients (post)

During the January-March 2023 quarter, that is, after a year’s implementation of TN-KET project in Tamil Nadu, India nine out of 30 TB districts showed at least 20-30% TB death rate reduction among patients diagnosed when compared to the baseline. An article, published in IndiaSpend, discusses what differentiated TB care means and why it is essential to be implemented as part of the national TB program in India.