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. …
KARACHI: About one third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria. Only a small proportion of those infected will become sick with TB. According to WHO report, people with weakened immune systems have a much greater risk of falling ill from TB. A person living with HIV …
Action Plan To Fight Malaria, TB Adopted The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a new global strategy to fight drug-resistant diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, urinary tract infection and even HIV at the 68th World Health Assembly , a forum that serves as the agency's highest decision-making body . It …
Worried that his eyes and urine were turning a deep yellow, Gednezar Dladla made his way to a local clinic and was referred to a district hospital, where he was x-rayed, diagnosed with gallstones, and admitted for the night. Both institutions receive funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill …
GENEVA — United Nations member states agreed Monday to a plan to tackle resistance to antibiotic drugs, spurred by warnings of a catastrophe for public health and heavy economic losses if they did not act. The plan is due to be adopted Tuesday at a plenary session of the World …
India has met only four of ten health targets under the Millenium Development Goals (MDG), and has made next to no progress on another four, according to new data from the World Health Organisation. The deadline for achieving MDGs runs out this year.The WHO’s annual World Health Statistics for 2015 …
A workshop organised by the Pharmacy Department of the Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Technology and Science (SGRRITS) in Dehradun has stressed on the sensitisation of society towards tuberculosis for ensuring timely treatment of the dreaded disease. Dr Manjari Gharat of Community Pharmacy division, Mumbai, explained about the role …
Mexico’s public-health system has suspended infant vaccines and mounted an investigation after two babies died and 29 were sickened in an impoverished community in southern Mexico. Six of the 29 babies are in grave condition after receiving vaccinations for tuberculosis, rotavirus and hepatitis B, which are generally administered between 0 …
AFRICAN countries are the most affected by the growing global drug resistance to malaria and tuberculosis (TB), a situation, which is compounded by incomplete data due to lack of information and poor quality medicines. This is the verdict of a new World Health Organisation (WHO) survey published over the weekend. …
Even as union health minister J P Nadda launched a nationwide TB Free India campaign in Delhi on Thursday, a survey conducted by a city NGO indicated that 47% of those surveyed in a Kurla East locality had tuberculosis. The Thakkar Bappa locality, which has many shoe-making units, is among …
It's a major problem that's quickly becoming global: fake medicines. The threat of poor quality drugs that are being distributed in place of real medication is on the rise, and may undermine decades of successful efforts to combat disease. A group of editors of a collection of journal articles have …
Nigeria, with the world’s third highest TB burden, sanctioned US$1.42 million to procure quality assured Second Line Drugs (SLDs) that will be used to provide treatment for 500 multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients. The second line drugs ordered by the government will be delivered by Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug …
The amount of US$101 million has been announced for the benefit of Liberia until December 1, 2017, the Liberia Coordinating Mechanism (LCM) Secretariat of the Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria has disclosed. Mrs. Paulina Doe Hilton, Head of the LCM Secretariat said the country stands to benefit …
Monrovia — While all attention has been on the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia, there is increase in other diseases especially in rural counties in the country. To identify priorities for Liberia to effectively respond to TB and HIV in the next three years, the people of River Cess County …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranks sixth among the 22 high tuberculosis (TB) affected countries, and has 43 per cent share of its patients in the Eastern-Mediterranean region of World Health Organization (WHO). According to available data, the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) per 100,000 populations in Pakistan is 181; case notification per 100,000 …
In a major boost to fight against tuberculosis (TB), the district TB control office has installed a testing equipment for faster diagnosis of the disease. In a joint collaboration, Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) and Central TB Division have set up a cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) centre …
NAMIBIA is the fourth worst TB affected country in the world, with 9 882 patients diagnosed with the disease in 2014. Health minister Bernard Haufiku made the revelation in a speech delivered on his behalf by director of special programmes Anne-Marie Nitschke, at the National TB Day commemoration held under …
Cameroonians in all the nooks and crannies of the country are receiving answers to these questions and many others as the world commemorates Tuberculosis Day under the theme "Reach, Treat and Cure Everyone". The Permanent Secretary for the National Programme for the Fight Against Tuberculosis, Dr Jean-Louis Foe Abena says …
According to Dr. Abdou K. Sillah, research clinician childhood TB working at the Medical Research Council (MRC), every year around 70,000 children die from TB worldwide and half a million are newly infected. Dr. Sillah added that childhood TB is, therefore, important for TB control. Dr. Sillah said this during …
DEHRADUN: Haridwar has emerged as the TB capital of the state with total 1,030 new cases detected in the last one year. TOI dug out data of TB patients and found out that Haridwar raced ahead of all other districts in the hill state in the number of positive cases …
The Vice President, Mr Mokgweetsi Masisi, says Botswana is among the 147 United Nations member states that are committed to re-enforcing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as halt Tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases by 2015. Speaking at the World TB Day commemorations in Francistown on Tuesday (March 24), …
