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 …
Health experts have said around 5.70 lakh people are now suffering from tuberculosis in the country and more than three lakh people contract the disease every year. The death figure has shot up to 66,000 per annum in the country from tuberculosis-related diseases, they said while addressing the inaugural ceremony …
In the past three months nine Bhutanese college students in Bangkok and India have been diagnosed with tuberculosis after they checked themselves at the national referral hospital in Thimphu. The latest case was that of a student from Bangkok diagnosed with the disease yesterday. According to doctors, all the cases, …
More than 30 people suffering from extreme- or multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (tb) in South Africa ran away from a hospital in Port Elizabeth in the last week of March. The patients forced their way out of the Jose Pearson Hospital after taking off their protective masks and intimidating security guards. …
The rate of being affected by Tuberculosis (TB) among the prisoners is 20 times higher than the rate among general population, a study said yesterday. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) conducted the study in Dhaka Central Jail. The study led by Dr Sayera Banu, associate scientist of …
The state health department is baffled after it has found out that a large number of tuberculosis cases have gone undetected in the state over the past couple of years. This, senior officials said, could lead to several public health problems in the near future. To gain control of the …
TB control plan being accelerated FOZIA AZAM ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Health has accelerated tuberculoses (TB) control programme with an overwhelming assistance of the foreign donors, including the World Health Organisation, which has contributed almost three quarters of the overall project cost of Rs 6 billion. Enhancing the momentum …
Every year on March 24, observed as World Tuberculosis Day, India takes stock of the progress of the Directly Observed Treatment Scheme (DOTS), launched as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in 1997. The results of the stocktaking are not very encouraging. (Editorial) April 5-11, 2008
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the Universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the Universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the Universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
Tuberculosis (TB) in Bhutan was well under control and in keeping with international standards, according to the programme manager for TB of the health ministry, Dr Pandup Tshering. But, as Bhutan observed World TB Day at Khasadrapchu, Thimphu, on March 28, the programme manager warned that TB could get out …
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading faster than feared. According to a new who report, Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world, about 0.5 million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (mdr-tb) are detected every year, accounting for 5 per cent of 9 million new cases of tb. India, China and Russia carry the …
Speakers at a seminar on Thursday called for launching drive to create awareness among the people of precautionary measures against tuberculosis (TB). TB caused by micro-bacteria, is one of the Pakistan's worst enemies as the country presently ranks 8th among 22 high-burden tuberculosis countries where more than 22 million people …
TB awareness programs have been conducted in the islands of Addu atoll to coincide with the World Tuberculosis Day. The World Tuberculosis Day is 24th of March. The events at the program were conducted under the theme "I will also help stop the spread of TB' and staff from the …
India is home to nearly one-fifth of the global burden of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases and this could ruin its national tuberculosis control programme, warns the latest annual tuberculosis report card released by a non-government organisation, Global Health Advocates. "The consequences of not maintaining a consistently high quality of services …
The increase in the drop out rate of tuberculosis patients during treatment and a rise in treatment failures is adding to India's multi-drug resistant TB cases. Drug resistance occurs when patients are not treated with standard treatment protocols or when they discontinue treatment. Presenting the India TB Control Report Card …
Sri Lanka Healthcare and Nutrition Minister, Nimal Siripala de Silva soliciting the public support to fight the Tuberculosis in the country said TB cannot be eradicated only through the efforts of the state alone but with the assistance of society as the disease carries a stigma and misconceptions associated with …
Suddenly the Maharashtra Government seems to have woken up to the deadly threat posed by tuberculosis. There seems to be a serious attempt at the "awakening of the masses' to the possibility that they can contract tuberculosis. The publicity blitzkrieg is amazing, a conscious effort is being made to ensure …
