Items tagged with Global TB response

Combating tuberculosis in Slovakia is a battle not yet won (post)

After several years of decreasing incidence, 2013 saw a rise in the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Slovakia: 401 TB cases, including 6 fatalities, were reported to the National TB Register, which is an incidence of 7.41 cases per 100 000 people. Slovak experts from the National Institute of TB, Respiratory Diseases and Chest Surgery pointed to several factors influencing this increase during a World TB Day press conference on 24 March 2014.

Call for candidates for the Stop TB Partnership Task Force to create the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 (post)

The Stop TB Partnership is going to develop the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016 – 2020, following up on the Global Plan 2006 – 2015.

Not the time to reduce TB funding (post)

In testimony supporting the president’s budget request this week, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah asserted that the funding proposed for his agency would allow it to “continue to make cost-effective interventions that save lives” and prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

While HIV aid drops, overall global health spending shows “enduring support” (post)

While development assistance to middle and low-income countries for global health reached an all-time high last year, assistance for “the main infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, contracted on the whole,” according to the Financing Global Health 2013: Transition in an Age of Austerity report published by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.

WHO European Region: Joining forces to fight tuberculosis: a regional collaborating committee on TB control and care (post)

The Regional Collaborating Committee on Tuberculosis Control and Care (RCC-TB) has recently launched a new factsheet to outline what it is, it’s mission, the areas in which it can make a difference and what need there is for it. You can view the entire factsheet by clicking here. You can also read more about the initiative on the WHO RCC-TB page. The group is open to all TB stakeholders in the region - you can apply by writing an email to tuberculosis@euro.who.int.

South Africa: ARV programme saves 780 000 lives (post)

South Africa’s HIV antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme saved 780 000 lives between 2003 and 2012, according to a recently released independent review.

Indonesia: The thinker: Tackling tuberculosis (post)

Yesterday was a good day: I told a patient of mine that she was free of tuberculosis (TB). She could stop taking medications she had been taking for six months — medications that cured her while putting her at risk of potentially serious side effects. She smiled broadly and shook my hand, thanking me effusively.

Nigeria: Global Fund tasks FG over increasing cases of untreated MDR-TB (post)

The Global Fund, a key partner in the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, NTBLCP, has raised alarm over the increasing cases of untreated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, MDR-TB, in Nigeria.

Pakistan: The prevalence of tuberculosis is on the rise (post)