A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 extra deaths from AIDS-related …
Mortality from TB since 1990 was estimated for 213 countries using established methods endorsed by WHO. Mortality trends were estimated separately for people with and without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in accordance with the International classification of diseases. Lives saved by the DOTS/Stop TB Strategy were estimated with respect …
Vaccines against deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis and hepatitis B have to be stored, transported and administered with abundant caution or else the results can be disastrous, as was demonstrated to a group of journalists this past week during a field trip to villages around Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The …
At least nineteen people have died of tuberculosis disease in Tanahun district in the past one year. Citing information provided by District Health Office, Tanahun, media reports said 12 men and 7 women died of TB in a one year period. TB is a bacterial infection caused by a germ …
The Union Health Ministry has asked all state tuberculosis (TB) officers to endorse the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), urging countries to ban
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk. Production of the test kits, WHO officials said, was largely by Western companies which export them to …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday that millions of blood tests conducted every year to diagnose tuberculosis are unreliable and putting patients
Widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable and can produce wrong results, the World Health Organisation warned Sunday. The UN health agency said it will issue an unprecedented recommendation against using such tests for the infectious lung disease that affects some 14 …
PANJIM: Voluntary Health Association of Goa (VHAG) has stepped up efforts as part of its programme to eradicate TB in the state, even as its representatives warned that as many as 40% of the population could be infected with latent TB, while speaking at a three day Training of Trainers …
Pabna: Tuberculosis has taken an alarming turn as 56 people died of the disease in the district in last 15 months. According to official sources, the toll is 56 while the non-government sources put the toll over 200. This was disclosed at a day-long workshop for journalists in Pabna recently. …
An antibody detection-based diagnostic test in a user-friendly format could potentially replace microscopy and extend tuberculosis diagnosis to lower levels of health services. Dozens of commercial serological tests for tuberculosis are being marketed in many parts of the world, despite previous systematic reviews having reported variable sensitivity and specificity of …
Health is currently a privilege in India. Not a right. Maternal and child health remains neglected even after countless plans, programmes and political proclamations. Every year, nearly 60,000 women die in pregnancy and childbirth, while approximately 1.7 million children less than five years of age also die. In absolute numbers, …
An experimental tuberculosis shot for children works best when it is not given with other vaccines, a new study has found. The finding raises concerns because doctors working in Africa prefer to give babies as many vaccines as possible at once.
Scientists Believe The Compound They Stumbled Upon Off The Rameswaram Coast Will Help Treat TB, HIV Chennai: For years, scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have been digging in deserts and under the sea hoping to unearth chemical compounds that had the potential to be developed into drugs …
General Secretary, TB Association, district Peshawar, Dr Saeedul Majeed has said the number of TB patients in Peshawar had increased during the last one year. He was addressing executive body meeting of the association on Thursday. He called for bringing improvement in the economic conditions of the people in the …
A molecule extracted from a marine micro-organism, found off the coast of Rameshwaram, could potentially be the next biggest development in treating TB and HIV, claimed researchers here on Wednesday. Offering new hope to those living with HIV as well as TB patients, a group of scientists from the Tuberculosis …
Bangalore: Twenty lions and tigers have died over 15 months at the Bannerghatta Biological Park. According a reply by the government to a question in the Assembly, nine tigers and 11 lions in the park died of various diseases and ailments between January 2010 and March 2011. Of the nine …
Sri Lanka has come to the forefront from among 11 South East Asian countries with regard to several health indices according to the 2010 world health situation report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the Health Ministry. Priority given to free healthcare services by the government, people's high …
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has frozen payments on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of disease-fighting grants to China, one of the charity
60% Of Dosages Being Prescribed Violate Standard Guidelines: Study New Delhi: Almost 60% of dosages being prescribed to patients suffering from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) control is considered primarily a public health concern, and private sector TB treatment has attracted less attention. Thus, the size and characteristics of private sector TB drug sales remain largely unknown.We used IMS Health data to analyze private TB drug consumption in 10 high burden countries (HBCs), after …
