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: About 3,600 patients with TB died in Mumbai in the last three years, said state health minister Deepak Sawant in the legislative assembly on Wednesday. In a heated discussion on the disease, the minister said that over 20,000 patients succumbed to TB in the same period across the state. …
Luanda - At least USD 44 million is the amount made available by the Global Fund to finance actions to control malaria, HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis in the country, said Monday in Luanda, its coordinator for Angola, Adriana Jimenez. The official who was speaking on the sidelines of the …
Health Secretary lauds the efforts of REACH and urges pharmacists to create awareness Tuberculosis is a curable communicable disease, but the State continues to face a huge challenge. That there were 1,544 persons with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and 54 with extreme drug resistance is a cause for concern, Health Secretary …
Researchers have found that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system can reduce the spread of tuberculosis in India by helping public health programmes better locate, and treat, people living with infectious diseases. Public outreach campaigns can prevent the spread of devastating yet treatable diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), malaria and gonorrhea. …
CHENNAI: Doctors, who encounter a tuberculosis patient, can soon notify the government in a minute using the Nikshay app that will be launched in the coming weeks, said Dr Darez Ahamed, mission director, National Health Mission (NHM), Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday. Speaking at a meeting organised by REACH, a non-profit …
4.2 lakh Indians die of the disease every year Stating that tuberculosis (TB) has become a national crisis in India, the Health Ministry assured the TB community that eliminating the disease by 2025 had the ‘highest level of commitment from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office.’ Senior Health Ministry official …
The research is being considered as a significant leap in controlling tuberculosis (TB), which kills around 4.8 lakh Indians every year and more than 1,400 every day. Repeat vaccination with the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine significantly reduces sustained TB infections in adolescents, results of a clinical trial in South Africa …
The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis on Thursday allocated 515 million U.S. dollars to support Mozambique’s combat against the three infectious diseases, the leading cause of deaths in the southern African country. “HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria remain responsible for high morbidity and mortality in the country,” Mozambique’s …
Dehradun: According to the recently published National Family Health Survey (NFHS) IV, as many as 72.5% of children surveyed in the age group of 12 to 23 months, considered a crucial period in a child’s development and immunity-building, were not getting immunised on time. The report indicates that the situation …
A research study claims that Indians lack access to essential medicines despite the government approving thousands of drugs to ensure their wider availability. The study has been jointly conducted by researchers at the Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, Lakshya, a society for public health education and research based in …
According to the World Health Organisation Global TB report 2016, India accounts for 2.8 million of the 10.3 million new TB cases globally More than half of all cases of TB every year — two-thirds of new cases in people 15-19 years old — can be prevented by ensuring people …
Meerut: In an attempt to achieve its goal of eliminating tuberculosis, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech on Thursday allocated Rs 600 crore for nutritional support to TB patients in India, a measure that was given a thumbs up by health experts in UP. Under this scheme, …
PUNE: The government has decided to rope in private chemists to strengthen its reporting system for tuberculosis (TB) cases. "This is another way of tracing missing cases of TB. Private doctors are already doing this. By involving chemists, the Union government aims to strengthen this reporting system further. We have …
Durban - Bringing home a healthy baby should be a joyous occasion, but recently it has become stressful for mothers who have left hospital without their newborns getting the all-important Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects the child from severe types of Tuberculosis (TB). One of these was a 19-year-old …
GURUGRAM: The health department has vaccinated 3,500 children in the entire district under the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) drive, thus achieving a target of 100 per cent. Under this drive, children are vaccinated against preventable diseases such as TB, Polio, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough ect. During the four months campaign that …
Process under way to increase rates charged by civic-run hospitals. WITH MUMBAI a global hotspot for tuberculosis, the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget is slated to make substantial allocations for prevention and early cure of the disease through procuring prevention kits and ration for all TB patients. The monthly …
CHENNAI: The health of homeless people is worse than that of others, as indicated by a recent study. the pilot study of tuberculosis among a small group of the city's homeless adults has found the disease's prevalence to be at least five times higher, compared to the normal population. Chennai …
Dharamshala: Himachal Pradesh will be free from tuberculosis by 2022. This was stated by Health minister Vipin Singh Parmar in Palampur on Monday while launching a campaign to locate active TB cases in Kangra, Bilaspur and Hamirpur. Parmar said 654 teams have been formed for the three districts and will …
Bareilly: The health department found 86 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Bareilly as part of a door-to-door drive, conducted in the district from December 26 to January 6, to detect hidden cases of the disease. The campaign, which means to root out the disease from India, examined 4,94,195 persons …
Clerics in Patna signing vaccination pledges, camps after sunset for children of migrant workers in Maharashtra, boat clinics in Assam taking the booster shot to remote locations It is not often that India comes in for flattering mention when health indices are discussed. But Mission Indradhanush (MI), a Central government …
