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Médecins Sans Frontières
Published: Feb. 19, 2014, 12:21 p.m.·
Tags:
Correctional facilities,
Drug-resistant TB
Since June 2012, MSF has been treating prisoners and ex prisoners with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Paola Mermati, MSF’s Field Coordinator in Donetsk, talks about the challenges of treating such patients successfully.
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Ekatha Ann John
Published: Feb. 19, 2014, 12:13 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
CHENNAI: The Partnership for TB Care and Control in India (PTCC), a coalition of over 170 organizations from across the country, has appealed to political parties to include tuberculosis as a critical public health issue in their election manifestos.
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University of Copenhagen
Published: Feb. 19, 2014, 10:47 a.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Scientific research
A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again responsive to antibiotics.
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By
Stop TB Partnership
Published: Feb. 19, 2014, 10:27 a.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
TB programs,
Access,
HIV coinfection
February 17 - Lesotho/Geneva - Lesotho has become one of the first Low Middle Income Countries from the African region to be able to make a transition into self-financing, for the procurement of adult first line drugs for tuberculosis without further dependence on a grant from the Global Drug Facility.
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WHO Europe
Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 10:23 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB
A new report, "Models of care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis" has just been published. Representatives from the Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation and Uzbekistan presented their best practices as published in the "Best practices in prevention, control and care for drug-resistant tuberculosis".
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University of British Columbia
Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 9:03 p.m.·
Tags:
None
A large-scale survey of South African healthcare workers has revealed major gaps in workplace protection against tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis, according to a University of British Columbia health researcher.
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Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 8:54 p.m.·
Tags:
Scientific research
Proteases are vital proteins that serve for order within cells. They break apart other proteins, ensuring that these are properly synthesized and decomposed. Proteases are also responsible for the pathogenic effects of many kinds of bacteria. Now chemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have discovered two hitherto unknown mechanisms of action that can be used to permanently disarm an important bacterial protease.
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By
Sara Reardon
Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 1:07 p.m.·
Tags:
None
Allayed by pledges that India’s strict new rules for clinical trials will be eased, a few principal investigators funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are cautiously restarting studies there. Clarifications on the rules by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), and a promise to soften others, have allowed a small number of researchers to return to their work.
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Health24
Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 12:51 p.m.·
Tags:
HIV coinfection,
TB programs
South Africa has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates in the world, with 993 people out of 100 000 living with the disease. This is according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg last week.
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