Items tagged with TB care
COPD can be a prominent issue with cured TB patients, acknowledge research study (post)
Earlier studies from Latin America, Africa, and China had suggested that people with a history of tuberculosis had a higher chance of COPD, a lung disorder with symptoms such as cough, difficulty in breathing, and fatigue.
Local use of TB data in Zimbabwe led to improved data quality and better TB care (post)
The results of a retrospective cohort study conducted by The Union in collaboration with the Zimbabwe National TB Control Programme (NTP) showed that empowering staff at local-level TB clinics to collect, tabulate, analyse and use their TB data, led to improvements in diagnoses and treatment.
Finding the missing millions affected by tuberculosis is one thing; treating them is another (post)
Of the 10 million people affected and 1·6 million people killed by tuberculosis each year globally, the largest number of these patients—including the largest number of multidrug-resistant cases—are in India. In his seminar, Challenges and opportunities for engaging India's private health sector in tuberculosis care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, UK), Prof Madhukar Pai, head of McGill International Tuberculosis Centre at McGill University (Montreal, QC, Canada), painted a detailed picture of India's tuberculosis health-care landscape.
TB associated with worsened patient mortality post-treatment (post)
Patients who have been treated for tuberculosis (TB) have a significantly increased chance of mortality from all causes compared to the overall population, according to a new study.
Unitaid invests in groundbreaking technologies to help patients succeed in TB treatment (post)
Geneva, 23 July 2019 – The KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation and Unitaid signed a US$ 13.9 million grant agreement on Tuesday to increase the use of smart pillboxes and mobile technology, aiming to help patients adhere to their medicines and raise the world’s plateauing cure rates for TB.
Tuberculosis is Asia’s silent killer (post)
Tuberculosis (TB), as a Lancet editorial once put it, is an “unsexy” disease. No one dies of it in a matter of days. It’s not highly contagious. It does not come with rashes, haemorrhage, or other dramatic symptoms. And it has been around for so long.
Mobile phone intervention reduces TB treatment failure in Kenyan study (post)
In Kenya, patients with tuberculosis who received daily text-based questions about treatment adherence and other mobile phone-based reminders were around two-thirds less likely to fail to complete treatment, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Ingestible sensor allows patients to be independent but still supported during TB treatment (post)
100% of patients in US trial were cured and preferred the new technology with the potential to revolutionize the treatment and cure of tuberculosis, the world's biggest infectious disease killer.
“I was very depressed,” said Tanwa. “I was in denial for a very long time.” (post)
An article published in Medium reflects on the impact of TB on mental health.
Zero-ing in on eliminating catastrophic costs for TB: can active case finding help? (post)
TB is the deadliest infectious disease worldwide. The disease can also cause a heavy financial burden for families, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In a recent article in Infectious Diseases of Poverty authors Noemia Siqueira and Kritika Dixit investigated whether active case finding can reduce patient incurred costs for TB in Nepal.
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