High TB risk for medical students – study
Undergraduate medical students in Cape Town are at high risk of occupationally acquired TB, with an unmet need for comprehensive occupational health services and support. These were the findings of
Tuberculosis (TB)
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First week of door-to-door TB drive: 1.38 lakh residents screened; 19 confirmed cases
Meerut: As many as 166 teams of doctors and health officers went from door-to-door, on Wednesday, collecting cough samples of residents in the first week of the nation-wide drive to wipe out tuberculosis
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Residents breathe hard as Dadu Majra stinks
Residents of Dadu Majra colony demand that the dumping ground in the area be shifted citing respiratory ailments and skin allergies from heaps of garbage dumped daily at the landfill. Satish Kumar,
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Zimbo nurse wins HIV-TB prize for life-saving TB test research
Mathabire, who works with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), won the HIV/TB research prize for her groundbreaking HIV/TB research on the use of a portable test for TB among severely ill HIV patients in Mozambique
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Kenya secures 335 mln USD from Global Fund
Kenya's health ministry said Wednesday it has secured 335.63 million U.S. dollars from the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria after its technical review panel has approved the government funding request.
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Kenya: Global Fund Approves Grants for HIV, TB and Malaria
Nairobi — The Global Fund Technical Review Panel has approved Kenya's Funding request for $335,631,852, which was submitted on May 23 this year. Kenya's funding application was found to be technically
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Closing an HIV lifeline in Africa: the dire impact of Trump's abortion crackdown
Celeste is a 30-year-old widow mother of two from the poor suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. She is HIV-positive, and since her husband died from an Aids-related illness last year, she has no way
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Health survey reveals alarming rise in hypertension cases in Capital
Apart from focussing on lifestyle ailments, the report also highlighted on the shortage of trained staff in MCD and government hospitals Cases of hypertension in Delhi have increased from 3,22,510 in
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Ongoing survey detects 837 new TB cases in a week in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Eleven districts of Karnataka recorded 837 fresh tuberculosis cases in a week starting July 17 this year, data from the state government's ongoing Active Case Finding initiative, part of the
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BMC’s door-to-door scan to combat TB starts on August 1
373 teams formed to visit households in areas assigned to them The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) public health department will conduct a door-to-door active case finding (ACF) campaign