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World Diabetes Day: Joining forces to enable access to essential prevention and care services for people with diabetes and TB (post)
14 November 2022 | Geneva: Today marks World Diabetes Day and this year’s theme is “access to diabetes education”, which underpins the larger multi-year theme of “access to care”. The theme highlights the importance of empowering individuals and communities with the right information to help improve the lives of close to half a billion people living with diabetes worldwide. People with diabetes have a higher risk of developing tuberculosis (TB), and of poor TB treatment outcomes. Access to education on diabetes will therefore help increase awareness and improve the quality of life for people and families affected by diabetes and TB.
Increased risk of all-cause mortality in co-occurring diabetes, HIV during TB treatment (post)
Mortality risk was higher for patients with concurrent diabetes and TB infection and more common than HIV and TB coinfection.
World Diabetes Day 2023: Equitable access to care for people with TB and diabetes (post)
13 November 2023 | Geneva -- In advance of the World Diabetes Day, which is marked on November 14, WHO is highlighting the need for equitable access to essential care for people affected by diabetes and tuberculosis (TB). Equitable access to care is essential to ending TB, as highlighted in WHO’s End TB Strategy and reinforced in the political declarations of the United Nations high-level meetings on the fight against TB in 2018 and 2023. According to the 2023 WHO Global TB Report, diabetes is one of the key determinants of TB, with just under 400,000 TB episodes attributable to diabetes worldwide. People with diabetes are at higher risk of developing TB and are more likely to experience poor TB treatment outcomes, including death. This emphasises the need for ensuring access to comprehensive care for people affected by both diabetes and TB.
New study links blood glycerol levels to TB severity in type 2 diabetes (post)
A collaborative study between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR ID Labs) and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Chan Medical School has uncovered that elevated glycerol levels are responsible for increased severity of tuberculosis (TB) disease in experimental models with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Adverse outcomes in drug-resistant TB with diabetes (post)
Diabetes mellitus may lead to adverse outcomes in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) or DR-TB, according to systematic review and meta-analysis findings published in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Novel inhaled vaccine for TB to be trialled (post)
The Jenner Institute at NDM is conducting a new study using the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, the only vaccine currently licensed against tuberculosis. People who have received the BCG vaccine previously will be given it again to compare whether giving it by inhalation is better at protecting people against tuberculosis than giving it through the skin.
The Lancet journals: World TB Day media alert (post with simple image)
For World TB Day 2014, The Lancet group publishes a Series of papers to highlight the need for global collaboration to diagnose, treat, and cure people with tuberculosis.
Global epidemic of diabetes threatens to jeopardise further progress in tuberculosis control (post with simple image)
A Series of three papers in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology examines the intersection between TB and diabetes from several angles, and outlines strategies that will be key to managing and ultimately reducing this dual disease burden.
Health experts: Perfect storm of diabetes and tuberculosis must be headed off (post with simple image)
Report targeting policymakers released at 45th World Conference on Lung Health.
Facing down the TB-diabetes co-epidemic (post with simple image)
At last week’s 45th World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and World Diabetes Foundation jointly issued a call to action against a global co-epidemic of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis.
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