Items tagged with Global TB response
US: If tuberculosis spreads ... (post)
ATLANTA — DRUG-RESISTANT tuberculosis is on the rise. The World Health Organization reports around 500,000 new drug-resistant cases each year. Fewer than half of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis will be cured, even with the best medical care. The disease in all its forms is second only to AIDS as an infectious killer worldwide.
TB drug resistance signifies failure (post)
LONDON, 9 July 2014 (IRIN) - Tuberculosis control programmes are among the oldest public health campaigns (dating back 125 years) but are not nearly as successful as they should be. Despite effective drugs having been available for over 50 years, TB still kills a million people a year, making it the world's single deadliest infectious disease after AIDS.
The dangerous resurgence of tuberculosis in China (post)
China now has the second largest tuberculosis epidemic -second only to India- with more than 1.3 million new cases of tuberculosis every year. What makes the situation particularly serious, however, is that, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control, China has the largest number of patients with Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and that Extremely Resistant Drug Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is also widespread. These facts show the need to step up efforts to combat the disease.
February 2014 issue of the IJTLD now free access (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).
UK APPG TB launches report into global health R&D (post)
Earlier this week the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis (TB) launched its 2014 report: "Dying for a Cure - Research and Development for Global Health" with a debate in Westminster Hall.
August 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).
Global Fund results show strong gains (post)
GENEVA – The Global Fund announced today that 6.6 million people are getting antiretroviral treatment for HIV through programs supported by Global Fund grants, with particularly strong gains in Nigeria, Mozambique, India, and Uganda this year.
HIV and tuberculosis are one disease in Southern Africa (post)
“We must ensure that the worlds of HIV and TB focus on individual human beings instead of individual diseases”
How to hinder tuberculosis control: five easy steps (post)
It is undoubtedly challenging to formulate policies for the optimum control of tuberculosis, especially with limited resources. However, history shows that acting on the basis of urgency or unfounded assumptions rather than evidence, and ignoring realities on the ground, such as perverse incentives and unregulated private practitioners, will lead to squandering of tuberculosis control efforts at best, and causing harm at worst. The repeated call for strong leadership seems especially naive, when that same call repeatedly ignores local contextual priorities and impediments to control. We feel forced to ask whether, in another 30 years, we will look back and say that, despite our knowledge base and experience, we exacerbated the burden of tuberculosis because of our haste simply to act. Perhaps now is a good time to recall the oft-stated maxim “insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results”.
The missed 3 million: Reducing the threat of tuberculosis worldwide (post)
Next week, over 40 African heads of state will convene in Washington, D.C. for the first-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. One important issue that requires attention at the meeting is strengthening the response to infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and tuberculosis (TB) that threaten lives, economies and national security.
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