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. …
KOLKATA: World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. But still, there are some misconceptions about this disease. A commonly held belief is that only economically weaker sections of the society …
VALPOI: A tuberculosis detection mobile van was launched by Vishwajit Rane at the medical camp held at Khadi village, in Valpoi on Saturday. “Two thousand TB patients are found in Goa, per year and around 40 to 50 people are dying due to TB in Goa per year. For the …
Nagpur: While the state is gearing up to take on lung tuberculosis (TB) using all its infrastructure and free of cost for patients, there is no clarity whether the private doctors, who too are a part of the national TB elimination programme, are expected to charge anything for consultation or …
As many as 1,306 hospitals, clinics and laboratories are registered to notify TB cases with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), but from January till March this year, only eight hospitals have reported new patients. Clinical establishments in the city have to actively notify cases of tuberculosis (TB) to the Pune …
MUMBAI: When it is tuberculosis, one prescription doesn't fit all patients. Government-run programmes offer the same medicines to all patients with drug-resistant TB, but an intervention by Hinduja Hospital, which was the first to detect totally drug resistant cases in the city, shows that this does not always work. The …
MUMBAI: Rafiq, a shoe salesman from Govandi, is one of 4,000-odd TB patients in Mumbai with the worrisome drugresistant form of the disease. But what makes the 26-year-old special is that he is among a handful of patients to be given not one, but two of the world’s newest anti-TB …
India became the first country in the world to run a national tobacco control campaign with the launch of 'Cough' on World No Tobacco Day in 2017. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) relaunched ‘Cough’ — a national mass media campaign to warn citizens about how tobacco use …
Clinical establishments as defined in the Clinical Establishment Act, 2010, include a wide range of medical establishments, hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, diagnostic services, including those operated by a single doctor. FOR THE first time, doctors, hospital authorities, chemists and druggists could face a jail term for not notifying tuberculosis (TB) cases. …
Chakulia blocks participated in a stakeholders’ consultation in Baharagora on Tuesday to understand the roles and responsibilities they need to shoulder to render the constituency tuberculosis(TB)-Free. The meeting was led by MLA from Baharagora, Kunal Sarangi, who will formally kick-start the campaign for a TB-Free Baharagoraon 24 March, World TB …
Countdown-2025: A TB Centrestage Discussion, and REACH Media Awards held in Capital “If you want to fight tuberculosis, it has to be done keeping the patient at the centre of discussion. For too long now, TB has been viewed as a problem of a select group. TB is everyone’s problem …
India stood committed to its resolve to become a ‘TB- Free country’ by 2025, said Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Wednesday, as countries participating in the Delhi End TB Summit signed and adopted the Statement of Action at the end of the summit here. The Minister added that India …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India would totally eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, a good 5 years ahead of the global deadline set for 2030 and has already started working towards achieving this goal. “Given the way TB affects people's lives, health of the society and impacts the …
The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership The 2017 Kochon Prize was awarded to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) today in New Delhi for building a tradition of excellence in TB research and development. The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to …
BENGALURU: Even as Tuberculosis (TB) activists are protesting for access to life-saving drugs Bedaquiline and Delaminid, in the national capital, in the backdrop of the End-TB Summit in Delhi to be held on Tuesday, 120 courses of Bedaquiline reached Bengaluru recently.India has only 1,000 doses of Bedaquiline, obtained as donations …
Survivors of drug-resistant tuberculosis, health organisations and the TB community have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow issuance of compulsory licence for two of the essential drugs for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment so that Indian drug-makers can sell them at affordable prices. Bedaquiline and Delamanid are recommended by …
A group of doctors have written a letter to PM Modi demanding that the Centre exercise its right of ‘Compulsory Licensing’ (CL) for Bedaquiline and Delaminid, which treat drug-resistant forms of the deadly bacteria. It means that Pharma companies — US-based Janssen and Japan-based Otsuka, will have to transfer manufacturing …
Invites proposals from the pharma industry to produce affordable medicines The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, invited pharmaceutical companies around the world to submit proposals to manufacture affordable versions of newer medicines for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. A WHO spokesman said the aim was to replicate the success …
Despite latest techniques, cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the district are on the rise. “Private institutions and hospitals, however, do not report the cases though they have to notify the Health Department about the same,” said nodal officer Gurpreet Singh Nagra. As per the data received from the department, the …
In their search for new drugs against tuberculosis which is increasingly becoming resistant to presently available drugs, researchers are exploring all options. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore have found that an existing anti-asthma drug is effective against tuberculosis and can help address the problem of drug …
From April, their bank accounts will receive payments at the rate of Rs. 500 per month in three instalments during treatment Tamil Nadu will roll out a programme of providing nutritional support for tuberculosis patients from April, State TB officer K. Senthil Raj said. Payments at the rate of Rs. …
