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 …
In India, only one woman is diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) for every 2.4 men. Previous studies have indicated gender disparities in care-seeking behavior and TB diagnosis; however, little is known about the specific barriers women face. This study aimed to characterize socio-cultural and knowledge-based barriers that affected TB diagnosis for …
European guidelines recommend the routine offer of an HIV test in patients with a number of AIDS-defining and non-AIDS conditions believed to share an association with HIV; so called indicator conditions (IC). Adherence with this guidance across Europe is not known. We audited HIV testing behaviour in patients accessing care …
Ashlee Earl and colleagues use whole genome sequencing and dating analysis of TB isolates from KwaZulu-Natal to identify when the mutations that confer extensive drug resistance evolved. Original Source
Mobile text messaging and medication monitors (medication monitor boxes) have the potential to improve adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment and reduce the need for directly observed treatment (DOT), but to our knowledge they have not been properly evaluated in TB patients. We assessed the effectiveness of text messaging and medication …
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex groups, and countries. The GBD can be used to …
Pilibhit: Tuberculosis is one of the biggest killers in the country, but its numbers have been declining since the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) programme came into effect in 2003. However, the latest statistics provided by the health department of Pilibhit reveal that the number of TB cases reported …
In India as elsewhere, multi-drug resistance (MDR) poses a serious challenge in the control of tuberculosis (TB). The End TB strategy, recently approved by the world health assembly, aims to reduce TB deaths by 95% and new cases by 90% between 2015 and 2035. A key pillar of this approach …
Call For Stricter Norms To Curb Conflicts Of Interest. Over 30 civil society organizations and several member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised objection to the framework for engagement of the WHO with non-state entities, holding that the issue of conflict of interest in such engagement is …
The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) provides free diagnostic and treatment services to all tuberculosis (TB) patients registered under it. Equitable access, implying a preference for the most hard-to-reach groups particularly for tribal areas, is a major concern for RNTCP. This study was conducted to assess the performance of …
Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says. The body has repeatedly warned that the globe is heading into a "post-antibiotic era" in which much of modern medicine becomes impossible. Its report showed "a lot more needs to be done" …
Over a 2-year period, from 2013 to 2014, WHO undertook an initial “country situation analysis” in order to determine the extent to which effective practices and structures to address antimicrobial resistance have been put in place and where gaps remain. A survey was conducted in countries in all six WHO …
On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. This post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy, labelled the End TB Strategy, was shaped during the past 2 years. A wide range of stakeholders—from ministries of health and …
With an aim to vaccinate all partially-vaccinated and unimmunised children by 2020, the government on Monday launched a 15-day media campaign to educate the masses on immunisation, ahead of implementing its ambitious health programme “Mission Indradhanush” in April. Depicting seven colours of the rainbow, the new mission aims to vaccinate …
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has launched an aggressive campaign to identify TB patients and put them on treatment immediately. The Association – the largest non-government organisation of doctors in India – has come out with “Have I notified a TB patient today? Do it today” and on Monday it …
HYDERABAD: In the wake of staggeringly worrying figures with regard to Tuberculosis cases in the state coming to the fore, experts have expressed concerns about controlling the disease. According to official figures, an astonishing 30,847 tuberculosis patients in Telangana were left untreated last year. Even as TB India has recorded …
PATNA: TB causes two deaths every three minutes in India. In Bihar, as many as 58,814 new TB cases surfaced in 2014. However, what is more worrisome is the fact that 1,010 cases are of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB and 25 cases are of extensive-drug resistant TB, known as XDR. …
LUCKNOW: Don't forget to apprise your maid or driver about tuberculosis as they are at a higher risk of the opportunistic disease that kills 200 people each year in the state. Playing a good Samaritan is important to your own health because a person with TB may spread the infection …
Presentation by Kirk R. Smith, University of California-Berkeley and Nicholas Lam, University of Illinois-Urbana at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
In spite of significant progress made in tuberculosis (TB) control, nine million people developed TB disease in 2013, and 1.5 million died of TB. While implementation of the Stop TB (DOTS) Strategy has cured millions of patients with TB, and undoubtedly saved lives, the impact of this strategy on reducing …
