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Bharathi Ghanashyam
Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 12:02 p.m.·
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Nowadays when Tarsil Orao (50) wakes up in his little hut in a village near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, he does not reach out for a customary morning cup of tea. The cost of tea leaves, sugar, milk and fuel is more than his household can absorb on the meagre income he earns as a casual agriculture labourer. Come lunchtime, there is but one dish on the menu - cooked white rice. Vegetables and lentils are out of the household too. Now it is rice once a day, every day and twice only on days that the subsidised rice they get is still available. Children and adults alike eat the same.
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Antigone Barton
Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 11:40 a.m.·
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A Congressional budget agreement released Monday night cuts foreign aid by $1 billion from the level set for fiscal year 2013, but prioritizes global health and humanitarian programs, according to a House Appropriations Committee release. The agreement meets President Obama’s request for Global Fund and HIV program allotments.
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Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 11:34 a.m.·
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A small study by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in India reveals high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) infection among young children, troubling rates of disseminated disease and alarming patterns of drug resistance.
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William New
Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 11:14 a.m.·
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World Health Organization member governments have been working for several years to agree on ways to prevent the spread of dangerous and misleading substandard and fake medical products. Now, they seem to be moving in the direction of concrete action.
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Chia-Hao Chang et al.
Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 8:41 p.m.·
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Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 8:35 p.m.·
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The incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was unchanged in patients with HIV who received daily cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, and the treatment does not appear to confound the diagnosis of tuberculosis, according to new study data published online.
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WHO Europe
Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 10:05 p.m.·
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Estonia has the highest per capita alcohol consumption in Europe. Alcohol consumption and its associated alcohol use disorders are seen as major obstacles to increasing the treatment success achieved under the National Tuberculosis Programme. The National Institute for Health Development, the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control worked jointly on a demonstration project aiming to improve treatment compliance and outcomes of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients through collaborative tuberculosis, mental health and social services. A specific conceptual framework was developed for this collaboration.
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Adam Kamenetzky
Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 9:54 p.m.·
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MSF Interview: Dr Georgina Russell, a clinical registrar at the Royal College of Physicians, on improving care for paediatric TB.
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Kate Kelland
Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 9:45 p.m.·
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Patients with potentially fatal "superbug" forms of tuberculosis (TB) could in future be treated using stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, according to the results of an early-stage trial of the technique.
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Grania Brigden et al.
Published: Jan. 8, 2014, 10:19 p.m.·
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Any future regimen should satisfy the following principles: (i) it should contain at least one new class of drug; (ii) it should be broadly applicable for use against MDR and XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains; (iii) it should contain three to five effective drugs, each from a different drug class; (iv) it should have an exclusively oral delivery; (v) it should have a simple dosing schedule; (vi) it should have a good side-effect profile that allows limited monitoring; (vii) it should have a maximum duration of 6 months; and (viii) it should have minimal interaction with antiretroviral drugs.
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