Items tagged with Prevention
Webinar: Results from ACTG 5279/BRIEF-TB trial (post)
Have you heard?? ACTG 5279: One-month TB prophylaxis as effective as nine-month regimen for people living with HIV
ICOH calls for a strong global effort to promote occupational safety and health strategies to prevent TB in high-risk worker populations (post)
The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) recently put out two statements advocating for work place interventions to prevent TB among health workers and silica exposed workers (e.g. construction and mining). ICOH is also hoping to have these opportunities to prevent TB highlighted in the final declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on TB in September.
UN prioritizes TB prevention in high-risk occupations (post)
New York, September 25, 2018 - The United Nations General Assembly is now calling for the establishment of prevention programs to reduce Tuberculosis (TB) among miners and other workers exposed to silica dust. This declaration was released in advance of the first ever UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on TB on September 26, 2018.
Study shows scaling up TB prevention in children is possible (post)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, October 25, 2018 – Children – especially very young children – are at high risk of developing severe tuberculosis illness when exposed to a member of their household who has active disease, but only 23 percent of child contacts of adults with active disease are provided with TB preventive therapy, researchers said here. That leaves 1.3 million children under the age of five who are eligible for isoniazid preventive therapy without access to the intervention that would prevent illness, according to the World Health Organization. Preliminary results from a study released here show how that can change.
Integrating HIV treatment and TB preventive therapy greatly improves IPT adherence (post)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – When tuberculosis preventive therapy is delivered with HIV treatment services and patients get a choice in where they access treatment, completion of tuberculosis preventive therapy rises, helping to ensure people living with HIV stay healthy, researchers said here. This model of prevention should be scaled up in TB-HIV high burden settings, researchers said.
Purifloh to commence air purification testing on airborne TB in Indian hospitals (post)
Purifloh’s exclusive research partner, Somnio Global, is set to commence trialling free radical generation based air purification in two hospitals in India.
CROI 2019: TB preventive therapy safe in pregnant women (post)
SEATTLE – Pregnant women who are infected with HIV and are at risk of tuberculosis co-infection can undergo isoniazid prevention therapy without causing harm to themselves or their babies, researchers suggested here.
CROI 2019: Dolutegravir can be given with 3HP to prevent TB without dose adjustment (post)
Dolutegravir (DTG) can be given with short-course TB preventive therapy of 12 once-weekly rifapentine/isoniazid (3HP) without dose adjustment, according to data from the DOLPHIN trial, presented at CROI 2019. [1]
WHO issues updated recommendations on TB infection prevention and control (post)
The World Health Organization has just issued updated WHO guidelines on TB infection prevention and control. These guidelines outline a new evidence-based framework that promotes the implementation of an integrated package of Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) interventions based on administrative, engineering, and respiratory protection controls. This will contribute to cutting transmission and reducing the burden of TB illness and death to reach the global targets of the End TB Strategy and the political declaration of the UN High Level meeting on TB.
One-month regimen noninferior for preventing HIV-related TB (post)
For HIV-infected patients, a one-month regimen of rifapentine and isoniazid is noninferior to nine months of isoniazid alone for preventing tuberculosis, according to a study published in the March 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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