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 …
Globally a third of total HIV positive people are affected by tuberculosis, a bacteria-borne disease that affects nearly 300,000 people and kills 70,000 annually in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh ranks five among the 22 high burden TB countries in the world," Professor Dr Pravat Chandra Barua, Line-Director of National TB and Leprosy …
With the rising temperature, most people are worried how to deal with the spreading viral fever, but a medicine specialist says the best way is to take complete bed rest to get rid of it. "Complete bed rest is usually called the actual treatment of viral fever, Dr M Foyjul …
A vaccine for tuberculosis, developed by the Oxford University, has started undergoing clinical trials, making a new vaccine for the disease a possibility. More than two billion people are infected with tuberculosis, which means approximately one out of every three people on the planet. Tuberculosis infects over nine million people …
SUKANYASHETTY MUMBAI, APRIL 7A THE State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered the state government to cough out Rs 90 lakh to revive the ailing tuberculosis sanatorium at Arangaon in Ahmednagar following a complaint filed by a local activist. Set up on an enormous 25acre land and catering only to …
Chandigarh: Chandigarh has been adjudged among the top five performing states and union territories in the country by TB India-2008 RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme) status report, brought out by the Union Health Ministry. The treatment success rate of tuberculosis for the year in Chandigarh was 86 per cent. …
Following up: A WHO team inspected facilities at Government Medical College Hospital in Salem on Friday. SALEM: A six-member team from World Health Organisation (WHO) reviewed the implementation of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme at Salem Government Medical College Hospital and various other parts in the district on Friday. The …
Two new drugs hold promise for tuberculosis patients tuberculosis is a common and deadly disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It leads to 1.6 to 2 million deaths annually. Worse still, most of the bacterial strains are resistant to multiple drugs and their numbers are rising. The class of …
The annual burden of Tuberculosis has risen to 5,800 in tribal areas out of which 3575 patients were successfully treated during last one year. This was stated by Dr Abdul Khaliq, Manager TB Control Programme Fata while addressing at the Advocacy Seminar held here on Saturday in connection with the …
Sangrur: To detect tuberculosis (TB) at early stage, the Central TB Division, New Delhi, issued new directions yesterday according to which cough of two weeks
Siliguri, March 31: The German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (GLRA) India has chosen eight NGOs in Darjeeling to work in a public-private mix (PPM) project with the state health department to eradicate tuberculosis. The GLRA, based in Germany, is an NGO working globally for the prevention of tuberculosis and …
Colombo city is the Tuberculosis (TB) breeding and distributing centre. Every year, 350 persons die from TB in Sri Lanka and 50 are from the Colombo city. Twenty percent of TB patients in Sri Lanka are from Colombo and 80 percent from all the other parts of the country, Healthcare …
KOLKATA, March 29: The state government has accepted that misdiagnosis and erroneous treatment has helped the spread of multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis. The state health department is all set to issue an order directing the doctors to follow the norms of the revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in their treatment …
KOLKATA, March. 29: At a time when tuberculosis cases - including multi-drug resistant strains of the disease - are on the rise in the state, the state health department is gradually reducing the intake capacity of tuberculosis sanatoriums in the state. Senior health department officials are defending the reduction in …
Mumbai In the last two years, at least seven doctors working in the 1,000-bedded Sewree TB Hospital were infected with tuberculosis. It is little wonder that only 27 of the 50 posts for medical professionals are now filled in the city
Matara: The parents of the students at seven schools in Matara District today opposed the government program to vaccinate the students for tuberculosis. The Health Ministry has scheduled to carry out its vaccination programme for tuberculosis in Matara district this morning, but it has to be cancelled due to parents' …
