Congress Should Invest In Research To Discover New Diagnoses, Treatments For...
The Hill: Waking up to the realities of drug-resistant tuberculosis in children Sanjay Jain, associate professor of pediatrics and assistant professor of radiology and radiological science at Johns...
View ArticleHouse Calls Help Mother Continue Treatment in Russia
Partners In Health has helped thousands of poor patients receive treatment for tuberculosis in Tomsk, a region of southwestern Siberia, since 2000. PIH staff members work with the Tomsk Tuberculosis...
View ArticleNewsweek Feature Examines Challenges Of Diagnosing, Treating, Preventing TB
Newsweek: Invisible Killer: The World’s Most Underestimated Disease “…[Tuberculosis is] an unsexy disease that affects those living in the shadows of society. Researchers, doctors, professors, and...
View ArticleInvestments and Advances in TB Research
More – Investments and Advances in TB Research The post Investments and Advances in TB Research appeared first on Global Health Hub: news and blogosphere aggregator.
View ArticleXpert MTB/Rif for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis- an experience...
Objective The Xpert MTB/Rif, with a detection limit of 131 CFU/ml, plays a valuable role in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, both susceptible and resistant. See original article – Xpert...
View ArticleGlobal HIV, tuberculosis programs flat funded in FY 2016 spending bill, yet...
Categories: U.S. Policy and FundingU.S.-funded global HIV and tuberculosis programs will be flat funded for another year under the spending bill for 2016 released this week, with funding for global...
View ArticlePrevalence of tuberculosis, HIV, and TB-HIV co-infection among pulmonary...
Background: TB-HIV co-infection is one of the biggest public health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Source article: Prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV, and TB-HIV co-infection among pulmonary...
View ArticleWhite House releases plan to combat MDR-TB at home and around the world
Categories: TBWith the acknowledgement that tuberculosis that is not effectively confronted anywhere poses threats to public health both globally and domestically, the White House today released a plan...
View ArticleOn TB’s Trail in Liberia
Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In HealthA PIH community health worker (left) visits Salomé Wesseh (center) in her home in Maryland County, Liberia. PIH is treating Wesseh and her young sister (not...
View ArticleGlobal Health 2015: Top 10 stories in HIV, TB and more
Categories: UncategorizedEbola – Since surfacing in Guinea the day after Christmas 2013, the Ebola virus has killed at least 11,000 people, 500 of them front-line health workers, and, in the course of...
View ArticleChild-Friendly TB Treatment Unveiled At Lung Health Conference
NPR: Could A New Berry-Flavored Pill Help Stop Childhood TB? “…[C]hildren with TB have to take the same drugs as adults, and getting kids to swallow those large, foul-tasting tablets is no easy task....
View ArticleFirst children’s TB drug hits market
Children with tuberculosis will no longer have to rely on crushing adult tablets for treatment. More: First children’s TB drug hits market The post First children’s TB drug hits market appeared first...
View ArticleDevex Examines New Funding Models For Global Tuberculosis Response
Devex: Looking for new funding models to address an ancient problem “The global tuberculosis response has consistently suffered funding shortages, which contributed to the disease surpassing AIDS in...
View ArticleKid-friendly TB medicine takes advice from Mary Poppins
Turns out Mary Poppins is right when it comes to designing better tuberculosis drugs for children. A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. The TB Alliance announced that a child-focused TB drug...
View ArticleUSAID Partners With Pharmaceutical Companies Janssen, Cepheid To Address MDR-TB
USAID: Prominent Health Care Companies Partner with USAID to Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis “The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new partnerships [Thursday] to add...
View ArticleEfforts To Address MDR-TB, XDR-TB Require ‘Full-Scale Global Response’
Fox News: CDC Chief Frieden: World must act now to stop drug-resistant TB Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “With a half million new cases each year,...
View ArticlePrevention and control of tuberculosis in workplaces: how knowledgeable are...
The National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (NTP) of Bangladesh succeeded in achieving the dual targets of 70 % case detection and 85 % treatment completion as set by the World Health...
View ArticleMDR-TB national action plan raises questions on targets and funding
Categories: TBAfter waiting months for the White House’s release of the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, TB advocates are asking why the plan isn’t more ambitious...
View ArticleTB Advocates Raise Questions On R&D Targets, Funding For National Action Plan
Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: MDR-TB national action plan raises questions on targets and funding Rabita Aziz, policy research coordinator for the Center for Global Health Policy,...
View ArticleBlog Posts Examine National Action Plan For Combating Multidrug-Resistant TB
RESULTS blog: Launch of White House Action Plan on Drug Resistant TB! David Bryden, TB advocacy officer at RESULTS, discusses the launch of the White House’s National Action Plan for Combating...
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