This document presents the findings of a modelling study that examined in detail the costs and benefits of tuberculosis (TB) screening plus TB preventive treatment (TPT) in four countries – Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa – which may serve as examples for other settings with a similar epidemiological context. …
The number of Ugandans living with tuberculosis (TB) has gone up by 60%, a new survey has found, indicating a worrying spread of the deadly bacterial infection. TB is a bacterial infection that attacks the lungs; acquired through droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person. It is …
The Union Health Ministry has released an ambitious National Health Policy to deal with problems that hinder affordable healthcare for citizens. DNA does a 'full-body check-up'. Given India's need for good affordable healthcare, the Modi government has so far not been able to achieve the lofty reforms it has promised. …
GUWAHATI: “TB requires urgent attention and it is necessary to involve local governments, corporates and those personally affected by TB, for a meaningful contribution to this national cause,” said Governor of Assam Banwarilal Purohit, while speaking at the launch of the TB Call to Action (TBC2A) Project in Assam. Purohit …
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 a study in the South African Medical Journal, conducted by experts from Stellenbosch University and NGO, TB Proof. Medical students …
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 (TB). Officials said that 1.38 lakh people were screened and 19 have tested positive. The teams of …
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, a resident of Dadu Majra colony said: “The stench from the garbage is unbearable, especially when it’s windy. …
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 and Malawi clinics. The International Aids Society said the feasibility study provided strong evidence that an …
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. The ministry said in a statement the funding application was found to be technically sound and strategically focused. …
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 sound and strategically focused. The panel also recommended that Kenya proceeds with the grant making process. The revelation was …
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 of supporting herself, though she tries to help her mother work her small vegetable patch. One …
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 2015 to 3,61,443 in 2016, a recent survey has revealed. More people also reported about cases of diarrhoea in …
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 move to make India TB free by 2025, has revealed. "This is worrying as these are confirmed cases. We …
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 for tuberculosis (TB) control. Starting from August 1, teams will visit households in over 70 areas identified by the civic body and …
NAVI MUMBAI: Studies have shown that environmental factors have been a major cause in the rise of Tuberculosis (TB) cases. Better health can be achieved with healthier living. Doctors say this is a disease impacted greatly due to a host of environmental factors like personal hygienic with respect to respiratory …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on TB Incidents in the Country, 18/07/2017. The number of TB patients reported in the last 3 years is at Annexure-I. The details of annual expenditure under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in last 3 years are at Annexure II.
Windhoek-Last year, Namibia was ranked the fifth highest country in the world in terms of tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate, with 9,154 cases of TB recorded. Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services Juliet Kavetuna revealed this at the launch of the nationwide Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Survey last Thursday. “Despite this …
‘Inadequate’ on parameters that reviewed policies and practices The latest global report on tuberculosis has criticised India’s control plans, even as the Union Health Minister JP Nadda has said that TB will be eliminated from the country by 2025. The Out of Step 2017 report published by Stop TB Partnership …
Basic ingredient of turmeric, in the form studied, is understood to be five times more ‘bioavailable’ in mice than in the regular one Curcumin, the basic ingredient of turmeric, when administered in a nanoparticle formulation has several favourable properties in the treatment of tuberculosis in mice, researchers have found. Prof. …
The latest global report on tuberculosis has criticised India’s control plans, even as the Union Health Minister has said that TB will be eliminated from the country by 2025. The Out of Step 2017 report published by Stop TB Partnership reviewed TB policies and practices in 29 countries which account …
NAINITAL: Uttarakhand high court (HC) on Wednesday directed the state health department to submit a report within three weeks about what it intends to do to improve the state's lone TB sanatorium located at Bhowali near Nainital. The division bench of justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and UC Dhyani gave the directions …
