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 …
A new strain of bacteria which causes tuberculosis (TB) and is resistant to traditional anti-TB drugs is emerging as a major hazard in Nepal. The new strain of bacteria called Multi Drug-Resistant strain can side-step all the major drugs that are in regular use to fight the deadly infectious disease. …
according to a report by the World Health Organization ( who ), "hot zones' for Tuberculosis ( tb ) are spreading worldwide, where the new drug-resistant strains could potentially lead to a "virtually incurable' tb . The study entitled, "Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World' says that India is among …
• DENGUE DETECTION KIT: Casil Health Products Ltd, Ahmedabad in colla-boration with Pan Bio Pty Ltd, Australia has developed a rapid detection kit for the dreaded dengue fever . The detection kit confirms the presence of the dengue flave virus in only five minutes without the aid of any other …
Reemergence of infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB) is among the major health hazards resulting from increasing globalisation, says a report published by the Institute of Medicine, the medical wing of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. The rapid rise in international travel and global trade also threatens to increase import …
the much-publicised 'breakthrough' for tuberculosis (tb), hailed by the World Health Organization (who) as capable of bringing the global epidemic under control, has been criticised by top tb researchers. Experts are anxious that the who's statements will fuel a dangerous complacency that could increase the death toll of tb patients. …
The number of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases is exploding in South Africa, according to Action TB, a research group funded by the British pharmaceuticals company Glaxo Wellcome. The Kwazulu-Natal region alone has witnessed a 300 per cent rise in the number of multidrug-resistant TB cases in just one year. "The …
•The West Bengal government has introduced a water pricing policy for affluent users and industries. Accordingly, they will not only have to pay the operation and maintenance costs of running a water supply system, but also help the municipalities generate a surplus.• Urban Environmental Maps of Shimla, a report prepared …
tuberculosis (tb), the giant killer, may be effectively contained with the help of a microbe Mycobacterium vaccae, which is closely related to the bacterium that causes the disease. Researchers from the London-based company Stanford Rook Holdings (srh), have claimed that an injection of killed M vaccae, which is usually found …
A three-day SAARC meeting from September 23-25 on tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS, spelt out country specific action plan for managing the diseases. The meeting which was held in Kathmandu, revealed that according to the World Health Organization estimates, three million new TB cases emerge every year in the SAARC region …
for the millions suffering from tuberculosis, especially in the Third World countries, the development of a new vaccine offers a glimmer of hope. Scientists at the Medical Research Council, uk, have reported success in preventing mice in laboratory tests from falling prey to the tuberculosis bacterium. This could be the …
Tuberculosis (tb) is affecting thousands of people in South Africa. Last year, nearly 140,000 people contracted the disease, according to World Health Organization ( who) and South African officials. South Africa has the world's highest incidence of tb and multidrug resistant tb, which kills 80 per cent of those who …
HUMANITY seems to be losing the war against tuberculosis (T13).The picture is unnerving - eight million new victims and 2.9million deaths every year; dilapidated national TB programmes; emergence of multi -drug-resistant strains; prohibitive costs of treating the burden of excess cases; receding hopesof new drugs as research budgets shrink; the …
Mycobacteria make daunting subjects for study. In contrast to the more commonly used organism for molecular biological research, the E Coli, which produces a visible colony in about eight hours, Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires three to four weeks to yield a comparable colony. Its formidable waxy coat of multiple complex lipids …
In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The length of the treatment is reduced in the follow-up phase from 10 months to four. This fact is significant because …
Besides BCG vaccination, another preventive control measure practised widely in North America but largely ignored in developing countries, is isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). Unfortunately, the impact of this measure on TB is as uncertain. The recent epidemic of HIV-associated TB in countries in sub-Saharan Africa had led to proposals for …
WHILE the World Health Organization (WHO) indulges in endless prolatives of achieving "Health for All" by 2000 AD, the global disease burden is on the boil, especially in developing countries. According to the Organization's World Health Report, 1996, infectious and parasitic diseases killed about 17 million people in 1995 - …
RESEARCHERS at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) in Jammu have sought government approval for a novel anti-TB therapy containing the pepper extract, piperine. The extract is to be used in addition to the standard TB drugs. The molecules of piperine have a unique ability to increase the effectiveness of conventional …
TUBERCULOSIS (TB) germs are working quietly and speedily with single-minded devotion to ensnare as many humans in their killing net as possible. This is the horrific future as revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 21 this year in London, UK. Warning of a new drug-resistant strain of …
Tuberculosis (TB), is claiming nearly 45 lives each day in Nepal. The alarming figures were disclosed by the National Tuberculosis Centre (NTC) recently in Kathmandu. While 60 per cent of the adult population have been iufected by TB, 50,000 new cases occur every year. The government's natioual TB policy includes …
INDIANS are a peculiar lot. They have three 'unique' genes which are not present in any other race across the world. These genes, belonging to the group DR2, put them at a high risk of contracting diseases like tuberculosis and leprosy. The DR2 group has 11 sub-types of genes. The …
