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. …
Diagnosis is complicated due to challenges associated with sample collection While detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children remains a challenge, it has now emerged that Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB is higher among children than expected. This has been described as a “worrying trend” by the Union Health Ministry. As many …
Ibadan — The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said Nigeria is the African country worst affected by tuberculosis. The minister said the country is within the number one to six in the world, adding that the federal government was working hard to eradicate the disease. Adewole who said …
Nigeria has adopted a new regimen that reduces the time required for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Tuberculosis from 20 months to about nine months. According to a press statement, the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, on Monday flagged off the regimen when he commissioned the first extensive drug-resistant Tuberculosis …
Ghana will host over 800 delegates from Africa and the diaspora to deliberate and find ways of fighting Tuberculosis (TB) on the continent. The 20th conference to be held at the Accra International Conference Centre is slated to begin from July 10-13. The theme for the event is: “Accelerating Implementation …
At least 10 people die every day in Delhi of tuberculosis, a curable disease, exposing a huge healthcare deficit in the national capital. Nearly 47% of the deaths are of people in the productive age group of 15 to 44 years. This data, an average of TB deaths in 2014 …
The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), an organization composed of the world’s leading international respiratory societies working together to improve lung health globally, released “The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease.” The report describes the tremendous impact that respiratory disease has on world health. Specific diseases addressed include COPD, asthma, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is splashing money on travel far more than it does on three crucial diseases that it continues to fight. The combined financial commitments it made to AIDS, TB and malaria in 2016 stood at $191m, $71, $61 and $59m respectively. Yet, the WHO – which …
The first global healthcare ranking report based on a quantification of personal access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015 has placed Nigeria at 140th position with 51 points on Healthcare Access and Quality Index. According to the comprehensive study published in the May 18 edition …
Geneva — Three years after Ebola crisis, Dr. Matsidisho Moeti’s Transformation Agenda yields numerous achievements by WHO in the Africa region; sets stage for new focus on adolescent health and establishment of emergency response hubs The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Director for Africa announced today four new flagship programs …
NEW DELHI: Children diagnosed with tuberculosis are now given bitter-tasting pills four times a day, making it a loathsome exercise. These drugs will now come in orange and strawberry flavours, the director-general of health services (DGHS), Dr Jagdish Prasad, told TOI on Thursday. The Union health ministry has already introduced …
Tipping point: India shoulders the highest TB burden in the world, with over 2 million cases. By 2040, 12.4% of patients in the country will have that variant, reports Lancet A month after the Health Ministry set itself the target of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, a new study in …
SHIMLA: While the Central government is targeting to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, Himachal Pradesh government has set the target for 2023 so that it becomes the first TB free state in the country. In Himachal, around 15,000 new cases of TB are registered every year, whereas around 9,000 TB …
Financing Global Health 2016 is the eighth edition of IHME’s annual series on global health spending and health financing. In addition to describing the trends in development assistance for health (DAH), this year’s report features an expanded discussion of domestic spending across low-, middle-, and high-income countries to describe the …
Nairobi — Tuberculosis remains high in Kenya, and experts say the country lags behind in the fight against the disease. Close to 40 per cent of the country's TB cases go undetected with the disease found to be higher than initially thought. A national TB prevalence survey found that 82,000 …
The deadly HIV is on the rise in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana, with the capital city alone accounting for 33 per cent of HIV AIDS cases in the state. In fact, the number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) has increased by seven percent in the last one …
HYDERABAD: Eradication of tuberculosis, by all means, appears to be a priority for the Centre which was recently indicated in the Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley where he has set a deadline of 2025 for achieveing the same. Closer home, officials of Telangana State Revised National Tuberculosis …
The Union Health Minister said NHP aims at an assured and affordable healthcare for all, besides free diagnostics and emergency care services. UNION HEALTH Minister J P Nadda on Sunday hinted at restructuring of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to clear bottlenecks in its functioning and streamlining facilities at …
Aurangabad: The number of tuberculosis patients in the district has been increasing steadily, though marginally, every year, raising a question mark over the administration's approach towards dealing with the deadly disease. The Central government has geared up for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) from by 2025 and has started various campaigns, including …
Tuberculosis maintained its rank as the leading cause of death in South Africa in 2015, even as the number of deaths attributable to noncommunicable diseases – notably, diabetes – continued to rise. That’s according to the just-released statistical report issued by the government’s Statistics South Africa agency. Tuberculosis was the …
A new treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is set to be developed using compounds derived from bacteria that live in soil -- according an international collaboration of researchers, including the University of Warwick. The research partnership -- involving the University of Warwick, and spanning institutions from Australia, Canada and the USA …
