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 …
Human migration has had a major effect on the spread of tuberculosis throughout the course of human history. In modern times, geographic barriers have been easily overcome, and mass migration reached unprecedented levels in the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Nearly 1 billion
Tuberculosis may no longer be perceived as the mass killer disease, yet even today a patient dies of it in India every minute. Thus a new breakthrough in TB control is heartening news. That the innovative research is the brainchild of the nation
Rajahmundry, May 31: Though health authorities are able to detect new cases of tuberculosis by involving health workers in villages advising people suffering with continuous cough to approach a health centre for diagnosis, they are facing a gigantic task to persuade TB patients on treatment to continue it until they …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat:To safeguard the health of thousands of artisans working in the agate stone processing industry in Khambhat region, the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) plans to provide financial and other aid to them for setting up a non-hazardous stone processing system. The agate industry …
Although progress has been made to reduce global incidence of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis during the past decade threatens to undermine these advances. However, countries are responding far too slowly. Of the estimated 440 000 cases of MDR tuberculosis that occurred in …
Rapid expansion of the standardised approach to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment that is recommended by WHO allowed more than 36 million people to be cured between 1995 and 2008, averting up to 6 million deaths. Yet tuberculosis remains a severe global public health threat. There are more than 9 million …
Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA: In a move to bolster Bihar's public health standards, the State government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who visited Bihar on Wednesday, signed the agreement in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar …
The Union government is planning to set up 43 molecular and culture detection laboratories across the country to conduct sputum tests for those suffering from tuberculosis. The initiative was taken after it was found that there were few intermediate reference laboratories to conduct such tests. Mr Vishwa Mohan Katoch, secretary, …
About 536 tuberculosis patients had been detected in the Kurunegala District during 2009, Dr. Saman Kularathne of the Chest Clinic in Kurunegala told the media at the North Western Province Health Ministry. Dr. Kularathne said that the disease was fast spreading in developing countries and the main cause was poverty. …
Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries. We surveyed researchers in 10 countries about their involvement in such efforts. The authors surveyed 308 researchers who conducted research on …
INDIA contributes 20 per cent of the global burden of new tuberculosis cases. In 2008, 1.8 million people died from TB including half a million deaths associated with HIV worldwide, said a 2009 WHO report. The role of BCG vaccination in TB control remains controversial. Its efficacy varies from region …
The project comprehensively maps the genome of mycobacterium tuberculosis Two student researchers from the city have been honoured by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for their contribution to the Central government
New Delhi: Indian scientists have mapped the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome, an achievement that gives hope of discovering a cost-effective drug for the disease that kills 3.3 lakh Indians and 17 lakh globally every year. The MTB map has been put online for free access.
Tuberculosis (TB) will be eradicated from Sri Lanka by 2025, twenty five years ahead of the target set by the WHO which is 2050. Sri Lanka's TB Control program will cover the whole country when the 26th Chest Clinic will commence operations in Mulaitivu shortly, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry …
Australian scientists on Wednesday claimed to have discovered a protein and were developing a drug that could cure tuberculosis which claims about 1,000 lives daily in India alone. Researchers at Sydney
A rally was taken out under the joint aegis of Arham Education and Public Welfare Society and in association with District Tuberculosis Centre on Wednesday from Indira Gandhi Gas Rahat Hospital and reached at District Tuberculosis Centre via Bharat Talkies. The main motto is to create awareness among the people …
