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 …
The Municipal Mazdoor Union has alleged that in the last five years, 60 employees of the BMC-run Sewri TB hospital have suffered from tuberculosis. Of these, 32 have allegedly died and 28 are taking treatment. After repeated agitation and protests to get the government to implement their long-pending demand of …
ABOUT 500,000 people in India die from tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease can lie dormant in an infected person for years without showing any symptoms but those with weakened immune system, like HIV/AIDS patients and the malnourished, are likely to develop active and contagious TB. Current diagnostic techniques, including …
Rohtak: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to hound the state despite all progress made in the medical sector over the years. The state Health Department detected as many as 14,000 new cases in 2010. The Health Department took out a rally to mark World TB Day here today and a programme on …
KOLKATA, 24 MARCH: The Kolkata Municipal corporation (KMC) will deploy more voluntary field workers and Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) providers to prevent drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB). Mr Atin Ghosh, member mayor-in-council (health) said the health department is worried over the drug resistant TB as the treatment is very costly and …
Two per cent of the Indian population is infected with tuberculosis, making it about 20 million patients. There are two deaths occurring every three minutes from TB in the country Jagdish Kumar Tuberculosis, commonly called TB, is an illness that usually affects the respiratory system. However, it can infect any …
Every year around 11,000 new Tuberculosis (TB) patients are discovered and 2,000 of them are from Colombo. Out of this number, 1,000 are detected from the Colombo Municipality, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said. Addressing the gathering after opening a Direct Observation Treatment Centre (DOT) at Asiri Hospital, Colombo yesterday Minister …
Captivity does not suit elephants. A recent survey of 367 captive elephants in the southern states of India has found that over 60 were suffering from TB. More than forty elephants housed in temples used to touch the heads of pilgrims as a form of benediction were found infected. In …
This 2011 update of Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis is intended as a tool for use by public health professionals working in response to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly’s resolution on prevention and control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Resolution WHA62.15, adopted in 2009, calls …
This book was produced by the WHO Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement as a major collaborative effort involving 50 authors from 15 institutions. The project was coordinated by WHO. The book is an essential resource for all those leading, managing or supporting the design, implementation, analysis and reporting …
A new test developed for diagnosing active tuberculosis is set to revolutionise treatment of a disease that kills 1.8 million people round the world every year. It recently won approval from the World Health Organisation for a worldwide rollout over the next few years. The approval comes within three months …
The bug, having existed in the world far longer than us, springs some evolutionary survival tricks Tuberculosis or TB is an ancient disease that has affected humankind since historical times. Analysis of some of the mummies of Egyptian royalty has suggested that they suffered from TB. Until recent times, no …
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will develop the infrastructure of Revised National tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in order to bring down the rate of Tuberculosis disease in the city, member, mayor-in-council (health) Mr Atin Ghosh said today. Mr Ghosh said the KMC will launch an awareness programme with the help …
N. Gopal Raj THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A team of Indian researchers has discovered a way in which the tuberculosis bacterium is able to remain dormant for many years in the bodies of those it infects, emerging to cause disease when their immune system weakens. The World Health Organisation estimates that one-third of …
With 99,000 Cases A Year, India 2nd Only To China New Delhi: India is increasing its diagnostic capability to better detect multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis
In 2009, giant African pouched rats trained to detect tuberculosis (TB) evaluated sputum samples from 10,523 patients whose sputum had previously been evaluated by smear microscopy. Microscopists found 13.3% of the patients to be TB-positive. Simulated second-line screening by the rats revealed 620 new TB-positive patients, increasing the case detection …
In 2009, giant African pouched rats trained to detect tuberculosis (TB) evaluated sputum samples from 10,523 patients whose sputum had previously been evaluated by smear microscopy. Microscopists found 13.3% of the patients to be TB-positive. Simulated second-line screening by the rats revealed 620 new TB-positive patients, increasing the case detection …
