Items tagged with TB care
Impact of decentralized care and the Xpert MTB/RIF test on rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment initiation in Khayelitsha, South Africa (post)
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Report: The people living with HIV stigma index – South Africa 2014 (post)
Compiled by the Human Sciences Research Council, this stigma index released at the SA AIDS 2015 Conference is the world’s largest study into HIV stigma.
SureAdhere Mobile Technology, Inc. founded to tackle medication adherence for tuberculosis (post)
UC San Diego research efforts lead to commercialization of proven mHealth platfor.
South Africa: More than R130 million slated for new TB drugs (post)
In just four years, South Africa has seen a 40-fold increase in health facilities treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) as government pledges more than R130 million for new medicines.
India: Private pharmacies to distribute TB drugs to increase coverage (post)
Even though the State and Central Government provide drugs and treatment free of cost to all tuberculosis patients irrespective of their financial status, only around half of all TB patients avail themselves of these facilities.
A new cost-effectiveness study of TB care models in Ukraine as an advocacy tool (post)
‘Strengthening TB Control in Ukraine’ (STBCU) – a project funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID) – has released results of the pilot study of economic effectiveness and cost analysis of model of TB treatment in Ukraine. The study was conducted in Kriviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk oblast).
Psychological distress and its relationship with non-adherence to TB treatment: a multicentre study (post)
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Supercharged tuberculosis, made in India (post)
A patient with extensively drug-resistant TB flew from Mumbai to Chicago, and the deadly disease could become an infamous export due to problems in India's public health system
Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study (post)
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Assessing tuberculosis management: what really happens to patients? (post)
The End Tuberculosis Strategy, recently launched by WHO1 and focused on the goal of tuberculosis elimination,2 emphasises the role of quality management of the disease. Adequate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with tuberculosis together form an essential part of the strategy to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis to fewer than one case per 1 million population by 2050. Appropriate strategies for the management of tuberculosis include improved diagnosis and treatment for both active and latent infection and a new effective vaccine for primary prevention.1, 2
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