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 Africa, hard-hit by HIV, the proportion of TB drug-resistance is no less alarming. In former Soviet Union, almost half of all TB cases are resistant to at least one anti-TB drug -Bobby Ramakant This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day (24 March) is another opportunity for people of India to review …
Poor hygiene, addiction to tobacco, poverty and illiteracy are attributed to be some of the main reasons for the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) among tribals in the Agency areas and the poor in urban slums in both East and West Godavari districts. A large number of tribals and general public, …
District collector Sailaja Ramaiyer has called upon doctors, Dot workers and NGOs to work collectively to check tuberculosis (TB) in the district. The collector was the chief guest at a meeting organised to mark the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day y Krishna District TB Control Society and Krishna District TB Association …
The village of Palli about 10 km from Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district was agog with activity after 5 p.m. on Sunday. The villagers, including several children, squatted on the ground in front of the Panchayat Union Elementary School while many stood at a distance and watched the members of Gipsy …
A total of 165 people were diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis, the extreme stage of the disease, at Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital at Mohakhali in last eight months. They were diagnosed with MDR-TB since July 2007 after the installation of National Tuberculosis Referral Laboratory at Institute …
A tuberculosis research expert today said the world urgently needs a new drug for TB to provide relief to the ailing patients. In a statement issued on the eve of the World TB Day, Dr Balganesh, head of research at AstraZeneca, said, "With new societal changes, impacting the immune system, …
The city government is establishing a hospital exclusively for TB patients who are already being provided facilities for the diagnosis of the disease at 64 centres managed by the CDGK. This was stated by City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal while addressing a meeting held in his office on Monday to …
Tuber-culosis is more dangerous than Aids and malaria and, as such, effective measures to eliminate the disease from the country are needed to be taken. This was observed by speakers at a seminar organised by the Karachi chapter of the Pakistan Medical Association on Saturday in connection with the World …
One person in the world is contracting tuberculosis after every 20 seconds and nearly 250,000 people in Pakistan contract lung TB every year. Speaking at a meeting held under the Tuberculosis Free Punjab Programme at the General Hospital here on Sunday, LGH Medical Superintendent Dr Omar Farooq Baloch said TB …
Sikkim's Tuberculosis Cell (STC) has surpassed its target in the fight against Tuberculosis with 130 per cent detection and 88 per cent cure rate since the programme launched in 2002. "Our TB detection rate is 130 per cent and cure rate hovers between 87-88 per cent,'' said Dr JJD Pradhan, …
Even as nearly 4,000 people in the city are detected with tuberculosis every year, the numbers of those also resistant to drugs has increased over the years. To tackle the increasing problem of multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the state government on World TB Day (March 24) has decided to …
create awareness on tuberculosis (TB), the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, with support of various agencies, will organise a rally on World TB Day on March 24. The rally will start at Red Fort around 10 am and proceed to Town Hall.
Disease remains a "stubborn threat' to public health, says report Responsible for almost 10 per cent of AIDS-related deaths India loses 100 million productive workdays every year because of TB Businesses around the world have been urged to play a more active role in tackling health problems among their workforce, …
Sri Lanka has won kudos as being the first among all South East Asian countries which had successfully controlled the Malaria epidemic. Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said. The sources said that in 2007 Sri Lanka recorded only 196 Malaria patients down from 591 in 2006. The number of Malaria …
There are around 30,000 patients of tuberculosis (TB) in the district and 20 of such patients die every year, participants of an awareness workshop organised by the Pakistan Anti-TB Association (PATA) were informed here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Riaz Malik, a deputy district officer (DDO) for health, …
Japan will provide $184 million of fresh aid to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Friday. This will bring Tokyo's total contribution to $850 million since the fund was established in 2002 to combat the three diseases that kill 5 million people …
UT Home and Health Secretary Krishna Mohan said that to ensure the implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Chandigarh, resources are being pooled to provide quality services to tuberculosis patients. Mohan said the Executive Committee on Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP has become functional. He said that …
Man-Animal Conflict Source Of Rising Infections, Says Study India is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), a study by an international team of scientists which recently published its findings in the journal
