Items tagged with TB care

When I was a lad (post)

This is a true story written by Allen Jones about his fight in the mid 1940s against tuberculosis. His book recounts his determination to recover and return to his family after two periods in Black Notley Hospital, near Braintree, Essex where he spent a total of three and a half years.

Voices of TB patients heard in Tajikistan (post)

The first ever poll of TB patients and their families was conducted in Tajikistan. The goal was to learn about their attitude to outpatient treatment and develop recommendations concerning implementation of the new model of TB care in the country.

KwaZulu Natal traditional healers to test and counsel HIV and TB patients (post)

Traditional healers in KwaZulu Natal have been trained by the provincial Department of Health (DoH) to counsel, examine and test their patients impacted by HIV/AIDS and TB.

Millions of TB patients in India have no food, weigh less than 20 kg (post)

Under-nutrition increases the severity of TB, reduces patients' speed of recovery.

Directly observed therapy for multidrug-resistant TB decreases mortality (post)

ATS 2017, WASHINGTON, DC ─ Directly observed therapy (DOT) for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was associated with a 77 percent decrease in mortality in the United States, compared to self-administered therapy from 1993 to 2013, according to new research presented at the ATS 2017 International Conference.

People still dying from curable diseases — but South Africa ranks quite high (post)

The Healthcare Access and Quality Index rates South Africa high on diptheria but low on TB; but developed countries, such as Norway and Australia, are not getting it right either.

Healthcare shame: India ranked 154th out of 195 countries by the Healthcare Access and Quality Index (post)

India's poor ranking is primarily because of the rise in cases of tuberculosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart diseases and chronic kidney disease.

Fighting multidrug-resistant TB in Georgia (post)

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and others to assist the government of Georgia in developing a provider incentive payment scheme for TB.

Achieving TB milestones through last mile delivery in India (post)

India has the world’s largest burden of tuberculosis. The government has recently committed to raise TB as a national priority. With such a colossal burden, India may do well to scale up its promising health innovations. In a GHPC blog, Deen Garba describes how one organization in India, Operation ASHA, has used last mile delivery to make gains in TB.

Médecins Sans Frontières TB field research in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (post)