Items tagged with TB care
India's tuberculosis problem is the world's problem (post)
Tuberculosis has killed more people in human history than any other infectious disease and is spreading across modern India. Channel NewsAsia’s Get Real meets the heroic NGO workers who give India’s TB patients hope to beat the disease.
Patient support interventions to improve adherence to drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment: A counselling toolkit (post)
In response to the growing burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa (SA), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with local government health departments, piloted a decentralised model of DR-TB care in Khayelitsha, Western Cape Province, in 2007.
The gendered delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis patients in India (post)
On 25 June 2015, Sulabha Kadam, a health worker in Mumbai who works with the Navnirman Samaj Vikas Kendra (NSVK) —a non-governmental organisation that works with the state government to provide access to medical treatment in slums—hiked up a hillock to the house of a 35-year-old woman who was suspected of having tuberculosis. She was told that no one in the house was sick. Twenty days later, when Kadam stopped by the house as part of a regular follow-up, she found the woman lying on a cot unable to move. Kadam had the woman’s sputum checked. She tested positive for tuberculosis.
Cost–effectiveness of a comprehensive programme for drug-resistant tuberculosis in China (post)
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WHO publication: Active tuberculosis drug-safety monitoring and management (aDSM) (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a consensus document after a meeting on the essential elements for monitoring the safety of anti-TB drugs (aDSM) in Geneva in July 2015.
Tuberculosis in the UK: Being diagnosed with the 'Victorian disease' that 'never went away' (post)
A London Assembly report recently revealed that five boroughs in the capital had higher rates of tuberculosis (TB) than parts of Rwanda, Iraq or Eritrea. And last year, TB Alert recorded 6,520 cases of the disease in the UK - of which almost 40 per cent were in London alone.
Determinants of default from TB treatment among patients with drug-susceptible TB in Karachi, Pakistan: A mixed methods study (post)
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India: Why free medicines can transform TB management (post)
It is a well-established fact that a truly innovative intervention in disease control expands the reach of public health programmes, improves patient satisfaction and health outcomes, reduces patient costs and engages all stakeholders, especially the private sector. Yet, few such innovations appear, and when they do they are often overlooked because current health programmes are either too well-established or relatively inflexible.
South Africa: A TB patient finally gets a disability grant (post)
He once wore his blue-and-white striped Hugo Boss shirt with pride but it became a source of despair for Bongani Ngcobo, who has tuberculosis.
Child with drug-resistant TB successfully treated at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (post)
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center specialists report they have successfully treated and put in remission a 2-year-old, now age 5, with a highly virulent form of tuberculosis known as XDR TB, or extensively drug-resistant TB. The case, researchers say, provides the first detailed account of a young child in the United States diagnosed and treated for XDR TB.
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