Items tagged with TB care
'Cascade of care' can help India plug gaps in TB treatment (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death globally. In 2015, WHO estimated that there were 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide. Six countries accounted for 60 per cent of the total burden, with India accounting for 27 per cent of the global cases. The WHO highlighted that about 4.3 million TB patients globally are "missed" by health systems annually and remain either untreated or unreported to national governments, which may undermine global efforts to combat TB. India alone has more than one million of these missing TB patients every year.
On the question of patient centred TB care in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (post)
Two blogs authored by Evgenia Geliukh and Paul Sommerfeld comment on the advocacy needed for transition to patient centred TB care in the Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
TB patients’ pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with a longstanding DOT programme: a mixed methods study in urban Zambia (post)
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Natural disasters and weak health systems force innovative approaches to delivering TB treatment and care: studies (post)
Saturday, 29 October 2016 (Liverpool, UK) – New research announced today demonstrates the innovation needed to maintain tuberculosis (TB) treatment and care in the face of natural disasters and weak health systems. Studies conducted on TB interventions implemented in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the recent West Africa Ebola epidemic, challenges faced in rural areas of China, and new technology used to dramatically reduce stock-outs of essential medicines in Ethiopia were announced today at the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health, convening 26-29 October in Liverpool, UK.
New links found between TB and non-communicable diseases (post)
Friday, 28 October 2016 (Liverpool, UK) – A series of new research announced today demonstrates linkages between tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease, and non-communicable diseases including chronic kidney disease and diabetes. In one study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced research involving 102,072 patients, showing that diabetes is on the rise among TB patients and adding substantially to the costs of hospitalisation. The research was presented at the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health, convening in Liverpool, UK, 26-29 October 2016.
Impact of a daily SMS medication reminder system on TB treatment outcomes: a randomized controlled trial (post)
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SURVEY: DR-TB patients & providers (post)
Only half of patients who start treatment for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) finish it successfully. The reasons are many, and often are related to non-medical challenges. USAID is working with patients, their supporters and frontline providers, to develop a patient-centered care package.
Early outcomes of decentralized care for rifampicin-resistant TB in Johannesburg, South Africa: an observational cohort study (post)
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First surveys return data on the cycles of illness and poverty (post)
LIVERPOOL, England – Of all the hardships confronting tuberculosis patients in Vietnam, the most expensive is the time it takes. That includes the time lost to doctor visits in pursuit of a diagnosis, the time lost to getting and taking treatment. Then, for patients debilitated by illness and by the drugs hoped to deliver a cure, as well as for the family members who care for them, it includes the time lost that used to be spent working, particularly among families that had depended on every dollar coming in. Those costs alone account for about 68 percent of the costs of being a tuberculosis patient in Vietnam, and the reason that at least 59 percent of people being treated for the disease have incurred financial losses categorized as catastrophic by the World Health Organization.
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