Items tagged with TB care
To ensure proper nutrition for TB patients, give them food instead of cash, say experts (post)
Rs 600-crore budget for nutrition support and aid of Rs 500 per month will do little to prevent undernutrition in TB patients, say public health specialists.
Comprehensive care and support significantly boosts MDR-TB successful treatment completion (post)
A Taiwan program of comprehensive support and care centered on the needs of patients being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — at a cost of from $25,000 to $30,000 per patient, per year over the costs of medicines — substantially improved cure rates and drastically reduced rates of patients whose outcomes were unknown, according to a study reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
India: Chennai-run hospitals not first choice for treatment of TB (post)
CHENNAI, 14 February 2018: At least three out of five people, particularly in rural areas, choose to visit private healthcare facilities for tuberculosis treatment before they enrol for free treatment at state-run hospitals including primary health care centres, a study by a group of scientists has found. This has led to a delay in starting treatment - a critical factor for preventing complications and spread of TB in the community, the authors said. It also increased out-of-pocket expenses for the patients by nearly 17 times, said the descriptive study, ‘Diagnostic pathways and direct medical costs incurred by new adult pulmonary TB patients prior to anti-TB treatment – Tamil Nadu, India,’ published on Wednesday in an open access medical journal PlosOne.
India: State govt to offer monetary benefits for private sector TB doctors and patients (post)
The social stigma attached with tuberculosis (TB) is the prime reason why most patients prefer taking treatment from private doctors. The public health department, therefore, is unable to identify the actual number of TB patients in the state.
A perfect storm: HIV, tuberculosis and smoking (post)
Friday, 9 March, 2018 (Cape Town, South Africa) - Research released on the third and final day of the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) described the interrelation between tobacco-related diseases and communicable diseases such HIV and tuberculosis (TB).
Why people failing to take their TB treatment should not be jailed (post)
When the police arrived in their village in Nandi County in Kenya’s North Rift, Patrick Kipng’etich and Daniel and Henry Ng’etich didn’t think much of it. That is, until they realised the police were there for them.
Tackling TB stigma – a necessary step toward humanising TB (post)
Stigma has long been recognised within the tuberculosis (TB) community as a barrier to ending the disease. It is a complex and challenging issue involving institutions, communities, and societal attitudes. The global TB and HIV epidemics are both worsened by stigma, incited by their association with poverty, social marginalisation, and the risk of transmission and death. But what is being done to confront it?
App addresses nutrition needs of TB patients (post)
It’s a measure of the time technology takes that now, finally, an app exists to address the wasting that gave tuberculosis its original name — consumption. Leading to malnutrition, serious side effects from drugs or failure to absorb medicines, the serious weight loss that can characterize the disease raises risks of death or recurrence of sickness after cure, and, diminishing patients’ ability to work, adds to the catastrophic personal and financial fallout from illness.
TB services in Moscow extend “health for all” even to the most vulnerable (post)
Karam is a 23-year-old from the Khatlon region of Tajikistan. He came to Moscow in 2015 to work in construction, and 2 years later fell ill with a high fever and headache. He felt as though he had no strength, but nevertheless tried to carry on. When his condition became so severe that he was barely conscious – a state described by his doctors as the edge of life and death – Karam’s uncle, with whom he lives, called an ambulance.
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