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 …
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's largest infectious killer. The Global tuberculosis control report 2010 shows that efforts by national TB programmes to engage all care providers in controlling the disease can be particularly effective. This report also profiles the TB situation in 212 countries and territories.
TUBERCULOSIS has been on the rise globally, and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis even more so. Of the estimated 9.4 million cases worldwide, around half a million are drug resistant. India accounts for 1.98 million cases. Smear microscopy that tests the presence of tuberculosis bacteria is 125 years old and routinely misses …
KOLKATA, 18 OCT: The state health department has decided to provide bicycles under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to reach remote areas in the blocks. A team of officials from NRHM recently visited various block primary health care centres and primary health care …
Under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) over 1500 TB cases are detected in Goa annually but current rate of detection of 58 per cent is less than the rate fixed under RNTCP. One of the objectives of RNTCP is to achieve and maintain a cure rate of at least …
Tirupati, Sept 14: As many as 16 patients reacted badly to tuberculosis injections that were administered to them at the S.V.R.R. Government Hospital here and have become seriously ill. According to the victims, the paramedical staff at the hospital gave ceftrioxione injections to about 70 patients in the TB ward …
NEW DELHI: India and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) have signed a three-year grant agreement for $128.4 million or Rs.609.9 crore to support the continuation of flagship programmes of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). The agreement was signed on Wednesday between NACO director-general K. …
Contrary to the belief that women in their reproductive age die more due to maternal reasons, a study conducted in Maharashtra has found that tuberculosis, cancers, suicides, injury and poisoning are the major killers of women in the 15-44 age-group. The study was conducted by the Indian Council of Medical …
London: A new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid can diagnose TB and detect a drug-resistant form of it far more easily and rapidly than other tests currently available, experts have said. In a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers said that when used on …
TB cannot be tackled solely as a health problem; it must be seen as a socio-economic malady, says FREDDY DIAS Tuberculosis (TB) rates in various countries of the world has shot up, aided by tattered health-care systems, political instability and a lack of commitment to curtail it, the World Health …
A study was conducted on 440 dairy cattle in six organized dairy farms in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India using tuberculin skin testing (TST) to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis. An overall animal prevalence of 14.31% (63 of 440 animals) and a farm prevalence of 16.67% (1 of …
Kohima, Aug. 29: The Nagaland government has launched a five year TB programme civil society initiative to strengthen TB care and control in the country. Nagaland has been continuously achieving the national target of 70 per cent new smear positive case detention and achieved a success rate of 85 per …
The number of people dying from TB and Hepatitis is higher than HIV/AIDS, pointed out Leader of the Opposition, Manohar Parrikar on the floor of the House during
Rekha gets irritated easily, especially when told that she needs to gain weight. The 12-year-old is among 31 children in Majnu Ka Tila who have developed tuberculosis in the past few months. The Tibetan refugee colony has 127 patients enrolled at the DOTS centre and, according to conservative estimates, up …
A Cambodian group has developed a pioneering community-based approach to HIV and TB care and research. Amy Maxmen describes how this powerful model is being expanded to other war-torn countries.
South Asia, a region of strategic importance, faces public health challenges on a demographic and geographic scale unmatched in the world. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are home to nearly one-fifth of the world’s population. Even more dramatic, however, these countries are home to two-thirds of the world’s …
KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: A report published by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has revealed that the state government has no separate programme for malnourished children and there is also a lack of monitoring agency to supervise the quality of food that is being provided by the aganwandi workers to …
A Raman Clinical trials by the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre here showed that a drug-based TB treatment administered to patients living at their homes and those in the in sanatoria threw up identical results. The study called
The US has selected Bangladesh as one of the eight 'Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus' countries. As part of this global initiative, the US is investing $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems -- with a particular focus on improving the …
