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. …
Mumbai: To curb the rising cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the country, the Union government has roped in the National Aids Control Organization (NACO) to formulate a policy. A senior official said a joint committee has been formed with experts from the TB and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Control …
MUMBAI: Levels of vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, among Mumbaikars are no longer as low as they used to be a decade ago, says a survey conducted by a city hospital. About 77% of the 2,000 people tested in 2010-11 were deficient in vitamin D. The corresponding figure last year …
GENEVA: India aims to win its war on TB by 2025, but the goal seems too far-fetched. With an estimated 1.2 lakh detections, India reported the highest number of childhood TB cases (0-14 years) in 2016, according to a report presented on Wednesday by the International Union Against TB and …
It lags behind neighbours China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan but is ahead of Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. India ranks 145th among 195 countries in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, behind its neighbours like China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan, according to a Lancet study. The Global Burden …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first 'essential diagnostics list', a catalogue of tests needed to diagnose the most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases. The step was taken to address the problem of people's inability to access diagnostic services, thus failing to …
The notion that TB is diagnosed among lower-income groups does not hold true any longer, as many TB patients in Mumbai now come from higher income groups also. According to Dr Lalit Anande, Superintend of Sewree TB Hospital, "People with poor immune system get affected by TB. Now, more people …
More than 28 lakh cases of TB are reported every year in the country. Only 14 lakh patients are listed by government hospitals. Hyderabad: The decision of the Union ministry of health to file criminal cases against doctors and pharmacists who do not report tuberculosis cases has not gone down …
CHENNAI: At 18 months, Saravanan* tested positive for HIV — a diagnosis that led his mother to take flight with the child to Madurai from their village near Namakkal. Nine years later, she can’t bury the report anymore: The boy, who looks half his age, has tuberculosis, a common disease …
MUMBAI: South Africa seems to be keen to take a leaf out of India's book in its bid to fight infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB). A team from the healthcare ministry of the province of Western Cape in South Africa will visit Dharavi for clues on Friday to understand how …
JAIPUR: Tuberculosis patients will be linked to government’s direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme during two-month-long ‘Mera Gaon Swasthya Gaon’ launched in the state from Tuesday. ‘Mera Gaon Swasthya Gaon’ campaign launched by the health department will help campaign to eradicate TB from the state by promoting DBT scheme in the …
A mobile van fitted with equipment for conducting CB-NAAT, a molecular test that detects presence of TB bacteria, was inaugurated by Collector S. Suresh Kumar on Monday. The van, where tests for resistance to the drug, rifampicin, will make the rounds in rural and urban parts of the district till …
Pune: Experts associated with the Indian Academy of Paediatrics’ (IAP) city chapter have extended full support to the government’s immunisation efforts to save lives of children below five from vaccine-preventable diseases. The country’s aim is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by reducing neonatal mortality to at least as low …
CHENNAI: The state health department rolled out a new nine-month drug antibiotic regimen for drug-resistant TB instead of the old two-year course. The drugs that will be available free of cost in government hospitals will improve outcomes, reduce dropout rate and help Tamil Nadu move towards elimination before 2022, health …
Drug manufacturer recently phased out its Compassionate Use Programme Hinduja Hospital is trying to import Bedaquiline, an anti-tuberculosis drug, from South Africa for two of its patients suffering from multi-drug resistant TB. Janssen, the Belgian pharmaceutical company that manufactures the drug, recently phased out its Compassionate Use Programme, under which …
CHENNAI: A simple gaffe in protocol for TB diagnosis is turning out to be fatal for patients who are going missing from the state’s records. At least three of 10 patients registered with Tamil Nadu government-run tuberculosis clinics could not be traced because the contact details were either illegible or …
Pune: The government’s carrot and stick policy to get TB cases notified has failed to cut ice with the doctors and chemists’ associations, who have raised the issue of violation of a patient’s privacy in the exercise. Under the government’s policy, private medical practitioners and chemists will get an incentive …
The Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur exhorted the members of the state Assembly to come forward to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, so as to eradicate these diseases from the society. He emphasised the need for removing the social stigma attached with these disease, while addressing a workshop on …
CHENNAI: A PIL petition has been filed in the Madras High Court to take steps on a war-footing to control air and water pollution in all slum areas in the City.The first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice A Selvam, before which the PIL from Global Warming Environment …
Worse, it is antibiotic resistant; get yourself tested if you think you have the disease; start treatment immediately, self-quarantine for 2-3 weeks On World TB day, the world bank and the ministry of Health and Family cautions that Tuberculosis can no longer be confined to spaces which are segmented into …
A strange disease has reportedly killed at least eight persons in Dungurawa village in Dawakin-Tofa local council of Kano State. This is coming as no fewer than 21 persons have died from Tuberculosis in the state. Victims of the strange killer disease include five children and three adults, ranging between …
