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Wraparound health and social supports for newcomers to Canada is essential for addressing TB and stigma related to health conditions, new report finds (post)
August 4, 2021 – Published today, Tackling TB Stigma, a new comprehensive and community-driven report, shows that taking a wraparound approach to health care for newcomers, including hyper-local strategies to deal with stigma around diseases, is the best way to ensure people can address their health issues as soon as possible, and in comprehensive ways. Tuberculosis (TB), and especially the stigma related to the disease, including stigma based in people’s countries of origin, and stigma that’s pervasive here in Canada. The report is published by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services, a community health centre in Toronto serving refugee and other newcomer populations in many areas across Canada’s largest city.
Culture-based screening in US-bound individuals reduced multidrug-resistant TB incidence (post)
Overseas culture-based tuberculosis screening in U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees substantially reduced the importation of multidrug-resistant TB into the U.S., researchers reported.
WHO #EndTB webinar: TB prevention and care among refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) will host a special #EndTB webinar on 2 March 2022 to launch an interagency field guide on TB prevention and care among refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings.
Pulmonologists advise screening Ukrainian refugees for TB (post)
The German Respiratory Society (DGP) is expecting patients with tuberculosis (TB) to be among the war refugees from Ukraine. "Therefore, it must be ensured that these people continue to be medically treated without any breaks, so that their treatment is successful," said Torsten Bauer, MD, in a press release from the DGP and the German Central Committee Against Tuberculosis (DZK). Bauer is president of the DGP and DZK, as well as chief physician of the Heckeshorn Pulmonary Clinic in Berlin.
Ukraine war likely to cause infection outbreaks that will spread beyond borders (post)
Every day we see stark images of the war in Ukraine — bombed-out buildings, explosions, and bodies lying in the streets. But there's another, less visible war — against the bacteria and viruses that are gathering their forces together. They, too, will infect parts of the population and may spread throughout Europe. Here's what Ukrainians — and their neighbors — are facing on the infectious disease front.
Global Fund Observer special edition on Ukraine: 31 March 2022 (post)
Aidspan published a special issue of the Global Fund Observer, covering aspects of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict and its impact, both domestic and beyond. It particularly focuses on maintaining essential live-saving services for HIV and TB.
Testing for TB infection and screening for TB disease among incoming refugees from Ukraine to European countries (post)
7 Apr 2022: In the context of the mass influx of refugees from Ukraine into the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and other European countries, ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe are releasing today an information note on testing for tuberculosis infection and screening for tuberculosis disease.
TB patients in Ukraine at risk, some refugee groups to be tested (post)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put tuberculosis (TB) patients inside the country at high risk due to the lack of access to treatment, while countries receiving refugees have been advised to screen and test certain groups.
Global TB Caucus: TB video series (post)
The Global TB Caucus released a three-part video series: shorter-form primers that can easily inform people on key topics in the discussion surrounding TB.
Global TB Caucus regional forum: TB and migration (post)
On 27 June 2022, the Global TB Caucus will host an online regional (Europe and Central Asia) forum: TB and migration. The forum will discuss the effects migration has on TB, in light of the recent events in Ukraine that have caused a spike in migration with an estimated five million people internally or externally displaced.
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