Items tagged with TB care
Keeping TB patients under treatment is a priority in Iraq (post)
24 March 2014 - The sectarian violence that dramatically increased in much of Iraq in 2014 has displaced more than 2.5 million people. This, combined with the quarter of a million refugees fleeing to northern Iraq from the conflict in Syria, have put a great strain on a health system that had been making modest progress in its recovery from the prolonged crisis of the past decade. The frequent mobility and the cramped living conditions of those displaced are a particular challenge for the country’s tuberculosis (TB) programme.
Hear to help: Enabling early detection of hearing loss resulting from anti-tuberculosis treatment to improve the lives of our patients (post)
25 March 2015 - South Africa - South Africa has one of the highest levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the world, affecting 15,400 people in 2012 alone. Current standard of care for the disease involves the use of toxic medicines, which, among other side effects, can also cause hearing loss in about 30% of patients.
Malnutrition, not HIV, main trigger of tuberculosis in India: Study (post)
NEW DELHI: The search for a TB vaccine has proved elusive despite decades of research. However, there is one vaccine that has been found to cut TB disease incidence in India by half - food.Chronic lack of adequate food is the reason for more than half of the TB infections here progressing to become a full blown disease.
Not to blame the victim. Non-adherence to tuberculosis treatment: A multidimensional problem. What can we do? (post)
09 April 2015 - Poor adherence, besides causing medical and psychosocial complications, undermines the quality of life of patients, impacting more strongly in families with fewer resources. The interdependent relationship between economic poverty and disease is given by the synergistic relationship between health and socioeconomic status.
Autopsies and better data on causes of death in Africa (post)
Active tuberculosis, particularly when extrapulmonary or disseminated, can be extremely difficult to diagnose before death and is often missed, including as a cause of death. Therefore, autopsy studies can be especially informative. In their classic 1960 study, Petersdorf and Beeson1 identified tuberculosis as the most common cause of fever of unknown origin; most cases were extrapulmonary, and although most were diagnosed both before and after death, one case was only identified after death. In the same decade, autopsy played a crucial part in defining cryptic disseminated tuberculosis as a variant of reactivated tuberculosis that occurred particularly in elderly Scottish women and that was difficult to diagnose.2 More recently, autopsy studies have helped delineate the spectrum of HIV-associated disease in Africa and have shown that active tuberculosis in all its forms is a common cause of adult death.3, 4
Tuberculosis control strategies to reach the 2035 global targets in China: the role of changing demographics and reactivation disease (post)
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Quality of tuberculosis care in India: a systematic review (post)
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Nigeria: On the rising scourge of tuberculosis (post)
The recent revelation by the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) that 600,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) currently rage in Nigeria should put all citizens on the alert. It is a very deadly disease and not many people are aware of the potential danger they face daily from the disease given its highly infectious nature. This should change with all citizens imbibing the culture of better hygiene and prevention. What is worrisome is the fact that rather than declining as observed elsewhere, the disease seems to be gaining ground in Nigeria. This raises question as to the efficacy of the control measures being applied and calls for more dedication and commitment.
India: TB treatment programme may be generating more MDR cases (post)
The Joint Monitoring Mission 2015 has come down heavily on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for their inability to handle the MDR-TB crisis in the country. The report released last month reflects on the findings, conclusions, and recommendations made by it in 2012.
Continuing care delivered to tuberculosis patients in Nepal (post)
Outpatient assistant Ganga KC assumed her regular post at the Alka hospital’s tuberculosis (TB) treatment center, south of Kathmandu, less than 24 hours after an earthquake shook Nepal on April 25. She opened the doors to the Lalitpur-based facility ready to receive patients at 8 a.m. sharp local time, on April 26.
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