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 …
About 24,000 people are suffering from Tuberculosis in Balochistan, said Dr Ghulam Mustafa Shah, manager of the TB Control Programme in the province. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he said the disease was spreading fast in the province and stressed the need for creating awareness about it. Several …
This study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) published in latest edition of the journal Lancet reveals that despite improved medication and government as well as aid agencies’ efforts, the number of children suffering from tuberculosis (TB) annually has doubled since 2011. Multidrug-resistant …
At 5.6%, State’s Prevalence Rate On Borderline Pune: Cases of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) have gone down in Pune city and Pimpri Chinchwad but the number has risen in rural parts of the district. Of the 7,275 cases registered in the state in 2013, about 400 were found in Pune district. …
67 cases of multi-drug resistant cases of TB in Ernakulam alone Even as the World Health Organisation’s call is to find the missing 3 million tuberculosis patients who are not getting treated and cured, one of the major concerns of TB treatment remains increasing drug resistance cases. The multi-drug resistant …
As the world observes World TB Day Monday, a shocking research reveals that despite improved medication and government as well as aid agencies’ efforts, the number of children suffering from tuberculosis (TB) annually has doubled since 2011. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) in …
Govt must declare ‘ Zero Tolerance for TB’ Tuberculosis ( TB) is absolutely a curable disease but still about 2.5 lakh people die to the disease every year in our country. It is a highly contagious and every single patient generates 10- 15 more patients of the disease per year,” …
One in every three tuberculosis cases in the world goes undetected despite the advances made in medical science, according to data from World Health Organization. TB is the main cause for high morbidity and mortality in such patients. On World TB Day on Monday, doctors will stress on need to …
Around 9,000 new tuberculosis (TB) patients are detected annually in Sri Lanka. About 43 per cent of the TB patients are from the Western province and of that around 23 per cent of the cases have been reported from the Colombo district, according to TB and Chest Diseases Control Unit. …
One-third of approximately three million people, who are diagnosed with tuberculosis every year in South-East Asia, cannot pay for their medical treatment, according to the World Health Organisation. According to statistics, around 45‚000 new TB cases are reported every year in Nepal. A total of 35,438 TB patients were registered …
About 1000 tuberculosis ( TB) patients are dying every day in our country and we are also generating 5000 patients daily,” District nodal officer Dr Vijay Chhajlani said here on Tuesday. Inaugurating the TB Week at M Hospital, Dr Chhajlani said that TB is one of the deadly communicable diseases …
China has more than halved its tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, with rates falling from 170 to 59 per 100,000 population, figures suggest. The Lancet report says the success is due to a huge expansion of a community-based disease control programme. The World Health Organization says other countries could use a similar …
Health: Although the increase in multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) cases could partly be due to good diagnostic services, public health officials find the surge from two cases in January to 27 in December 2013 at Gidakom hospital alarming. Gidakom hospital’s TB ward has 28 beds and, except for …
The number of children suffering from tuberculosis in Parsa, Bara, and Rautahat districts in mid-Tarai is far greater than that shown by government statistics. A new report said, in a period of nine months, 97 children were found affected by the disease. Programmes launched in Parsa, Bara and Rautahat districts …
Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its efforts often come into conflict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as …
Even as the public health department claims to have effectively controlled major diseases in the state, Maharashtra has earned the dubious distinction of being home to the largest incidence of both drug-sensitive and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases in the country in 2013. A senior bureaucrat told TOI that while the …
Social activists and residents of the villages of two talukas of Johi and Dadu held a march on Monday in Dadu town in protest against pollution caused by work on a gas field located in taluka Johi. According to protesters, pollution is causing eye, skin and chest infections, lungs problems …
Resist Taboo, Fight Graft To Get Better Treatment Pune: Reshma (name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during a free health check-up camp held in Satara, about 109 km from Pune. Government doctors asked her husband to start treatment immediately. The man first refused to accept that his wife has …
Overcrowding in hospitals, malnutrition, unhygienic tropical environs heighten problem in India Fungal infections kill close to 1.3 million people globally every year, matching the mortality rate of AIDS, cancer, malaria and tuberculosis, and also cause blindness to 300 million people annually. The magnitude of the problem is particularly serious in …
Men are outnumbering women tuberculosis (TB) patients in the state. Of the 1.5 lakh notified tuberculosis patients undergoing treatment under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), 5 per cent are children. Dr KC Kaushal, WHO TB Consultant, stated this here yesterday. He said 14,000 TB cases were notified in …
Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life", …
