Beating TB requires more than medicine: The value of patient support
The following is a guest post by Emily Delmotte of Management Sciences for Health Eight years ago Busisiwe Beko was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis when, after months of...
View ArticleThe Best of Intentions
Everyday, on the brief walk from my trailer home to the hospital, I encountered the bloated bodies of dead toads littering the stone path. Their outstretched tongues stuck to the road like taffy,...
View ArticleTuberculosis R&D “grossly insufficient” according to new report
Categories: TB The global tuberculosis response and TB research and development remain weak and inadequate despite approval of the first new TB drugs in decades and a new global strategy to reduce TB...
View ArticleSenators call on White House for bold TB Action Plan
Categories: Drug Resistance, TBWith the deadline for submitting a national action plan to combat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis quickly approaching, a group of Senators has sent a letter to the White...
View ArticleTuberculosis: The world waits for a plan, patients with drug-resistant...
Categories: TBTwo recently published pieces on the paucity of treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis open with anecdotes centered on one patient each — a little girl in Mumbai, and a 39-year-old...
View ArticleTB diagnostic tool development and access remain first obstacles to finding...
Categories: TBTags: FIND, McGill International TB Centre, MDR-TB, Pediatric Tuberculosis, UNITAIDIn the obstacle course that detecting, treating and curing tuberculosis can present to populations most...
View ArticleWHO report shows TB, treatable and curable, surpassing HIV as No. 1...
Categories: TBWhile tuberculosis deaths have dropped by nearly half since 1990, an estimated 4400 people die daily from TB, a disease “that often strikes the voiceless . . .” As World Health...
View ArticleTB overtakes HIV/AIDS as leading infectious disease killer
Tuberculosis killed 1.5 million people in 2014 – moving ahead of HIV/AIDS, which was responsible for 1.2 million deaths in the same year. The rise of tuberculosis (TB) is evidence of both the gains...
View ArticleTB diagnostic offers hope, while disease detection in highest burden country...
Categories: TBImagine if patients with suspected tuberculosis, possibly drug resistant, could be diagnosed, no matter where they live, immediately and reliably at their local health centers — even if...
View ArticlePsychological distress and its effect on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in...
Background: Psychological distress is the major comorbidity among tuberculosis (TB) patients. Original article: Psychological distress and its effect on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Ethiopia...
View ArticleWHO Framework For TB Research Outlines Steps To Advance Field Over Next Decade
Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: WHO’s new TB research framework to help high burden countries take leadership Rabita Aziz, policy research coordinator for the Center for Global...
View ArticleTB Research Funding Falls Short Of Global Targets, TAG Report Shows
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Tuberculosis funding gap threatens elimination goals “Funding for tuberculosis research fell $1.3 billion short of global targets last year, threatening worldwide goals to...
View ArticleA cost-benefit analysis of a proposed overseas refugee latent tuberculosis...
Background: This study explored the effect of screening and treatment of refugees for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) before entrance to the United States as a strategy for reducing active...
View ArticleUnion World Conference on Lung Health: World leaders call for immediate...
Categories: 46th Union World Conference on Lung HealthCAPE TOWN, South Africa – Global and national leaders met this week at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town to endorse the Stop...
View ArticleUnion World Conference on Lung Health: Better medicines to treat TB in...
Categories: 46th Union World Conference on Lung HealthCAPE TOWN, South Africa – Today the TB Alliance, UNITAID and partners announced the availability of simple to administer and affordable medicines...
View ArticleBlog Posts Highlight TB Report, Plan Released At Union World Conference On...
PLOS “Speaking of Medicine”: Step up to Stop TB Grania Brigden, TB adviser to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, discusses findings from a report on gaps in...
View ArticleCorrection: Impact of Replacing Smear Microscopy with Xpert MTB/RIF for...
by Betina Durovni, Valeria Saraceni, Susan van den Hof, Anete Trajman, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Solange Cavalcante, Alexandre Menezes, Frank Cobelens From: Correction: Impact of Replacing Smear...
View ArticleUnion World Conference on Lung Health: Romania’s poor relegated to antiquated...
Categories: 46th Union World Conference on Lung HealthCAPE TOWN, South Africa – When Jonathan Stillo asked the medical director of a mountaintop sanatorium in Romania what she would like to change...
View ArticleThe Best of Intentions
Everyday, on the brief walk from my trailer home to the hospital, I encountered the bloated bodies of dead toads littering the stone path. Their outstretched tongues stuck to the road like taffy,...
View ArticleLung Health Meeting Features Advocacy, Community Building In Addition To...
ScienceInsider: TB community borrowing a page from HIV/AIDS “…The traditionally staid 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health featured hundreds of delegates donning face masks during one session to...
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