Items tagged with Global TB response
Fundamental research is the key to eliminating TB (post)
Fewer people will contract tuberculosis (TB) this year than last. That is good news, and enough to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal that called “to halt and begin to reverse the incidence” of TB. But the pace of progress is too slow. Some 8.6 million people contracted the disease in 2012, and 1.3 million died, including 320,000 people with HIV. As it stands, the world will miss the international target to eliminate TB by 2050. To meet that ambitious goal, we need to modernize the way in which we tackle the disease. This means that fundamental research must play a bigger part in nurturing the development of diagnostics, medicines and vaccines.
April 2014 issue of the IJTLD now online (post)
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) is the official publication of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
March 2014 issue of PHA now online (post)
Public Health Action is The Union's free access, online journal. The journal aims to promote the vision of The Union, Health solutions for the poor, by disseminating new knowledge on health systems and health services for vulnerable groups, with a priority on tuberculosis, lung health, non-communicable diseases and related public health issues.
Congress budget pact good for global health but NIH cuts threaten US innovations (post)
New report from Global Health Technologies Coalition reveals a pipeline teeming with US-supported products, but neglect of National Institutes of Health is major concern
USAID details TB work, results, continuing challenges in “Impact and Leadership” for 2013 (post)
By the time Azmara Ashenafi’s multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was diagnosed, she had been wasting away, coughing and running fevers for three years. She had been on ineffective treatment for six months. Her three-year-old son had drug-resistant TB as well.
Public Health England commits to tackling TB (post)
To mark World TB Day (March 24), Public Health England (PHE) is launching its collaborative tuberculosis (TB) strategy for consultation, aimed at bringing together best practice in clinical care, social support and public health to strengthen TB control.
Management Sciences for Health (MSH): A costing study for TB treatment in Indonesia (post)
26 March 2014 - Jakarta - Indonesia has made efforts expanding tuberculosis (TB) control over the last few years, with significant assistance from donors, such as the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria. But there is a need to increase coverage of treatment, given challenges such as MDR-TB. Donor funds are likely to be constrained in the future.
Gambia: TB prevalence survey findings revealed (post)
There is still significant undetected TB in The Gambia; TB in The Gambia is predominantly urban-based where most of the population resides; and,TB is a bigger problem for men. These are some of the findings of a nation-wide TB prevalence survey.
Stop TB Partnership and the Global Fund urge AU finance ministers to make health a priority (post)
02 April 2014 - Abuja/Geneva - African Union finance ministers came together last week to discuss ways to push industrialisation in the continent, but failed to underscore the need for increased investments in health to address challenges such as tuberculosis.
Rwanda, 20 years on: an inspiration for health systems strengthening (post)
07 April 2014 - Geneva - Two decades on and the stories are coming out to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide; a conflict that claimed nearly a million lives and displaced another two million. It was an almost unimaginable tragedy in which the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis exploded across the Great Lakes Region of Africa, also affecting DR Congo, Burundi and Uganda as well.
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