Items tagged with Diagnostics
WHO public consultation for Target Product Profiles for TB screening tests (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating high-priority Target Product Profiles (TPPs) for TB screening tests.
Webinar: Time for $5 Campaign update (post)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign will host a webinar on 5 March 2024 to provide an update about the next phase of escalation of the Time for $5 Campaign.
GLI Core Group: Call for applications (post)
The Secretariat of the Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) of the Stop TB Partnership, that is hosted by the World Health Organization Global TB Program announced a call for applications for a new member specifically representing communities and persons affected by TB, to serve on the GLI Core Group in 2024-2026.
New TB test could improve TB care globally by increasing access to testing in low- and middle-income countries (post)
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2024 -- A new tuberculosis (TB) test disclosed in the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine's (formerly AACC's) Clinical Chemistry journal would allow testing for TB treatment monitoring to occur outside of a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory. This could help reduce worldwide mortality from TB by enabling low- and middle-income countries that lack BSL-3 facilities to treat TB more efficiently.
Scientists close in on TB blood test which could detect millions of silent spreaders (post)
Scientists have taken a major step towards developing a blood test that could identify millions of people who spread tuberculosis unknowingly.
Active case finding for TB must be paired with effective follow-up care, Cochrane Review finds (post)
Door-to-door tuberculosis (TB) screening and contact tracing can improve diagnosis rates, but must be paired with effective follow-up care to be successful, a new Cochrane Review has found.
Is active screening for TB among vulnerable populations cost-effective? (post)
Early detection and prompt treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are the main pillars on the way to ending TB as they help prevent further transmission. Finding those at risk of developing infection, however, requires extra efforts, particularly in settings where TB incidence levels are generally low, i.e., when there are less than 10 TB cases per 100,000 population.
New classification of TB to support efforts to eliminate the disease (post)
A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team involving researchers at the University College London (UCL).
New technology enables Philippines to bring TB diagnosis closer to people (post)
The Philippines has the fourth highest TB burden in the world and contributes 7% of global cases, behind India (27%), Indonesia (10%), and China (7.1%), according to the World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2021. But for the archipelagic country with 7,640 islands, citizens’ access to healthcare and diagnostic tools has been one of the greatest barriers to addressing TB.
New TB skin test could offer cheaper and easier way to detect the disease (post)
Detecting tuberculosis early could play a significant role in eradicating the world’s most deadly infectious disease. The World Health Organization says 1.5 million people die from this devastating disease each year.
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