Items tagged with TB programs

Kyrgyzstan: Funds drying up for fight against TB (post)

With less than two months left before the year is out, tuberculosis carriers in Kyrgyzstan are counting the days before foreign funding runs out for the treatment they require.

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.

India: Chennai’s new strategy to eliminate TB (post)

Thanks to the Zero TB Cities project, if all goes well, Chennai may drastically reduce TB mortality, shrink the number of new cases annually and impact TB prevalence in the city in a matter of 3-5 years.

Ethiopia could be a model country for tuberculosis control (post)

Ethiopia's political commitment, along with an army of thousands of health extension workers, is helping it to successfully tackle tuberculosis. Talha Burki reports from the capital, Addis Ababa.

‘India’s fight against TB lacks punch’ (post)

“TB is the leading infectious killer, yet countries still follow old and dangerous [TB diagnostic and treatment] polices,” MSF Access Campaign tweeted. In another tweet, MSF International said: “Outdated tuberculosis policies are risking further spread of drug-resistant TB.”

Papua New Guinea struggles to tame drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (post)

Papua New Guinea has the highest rate of tuberculosis in the Pacific region. Andrew Thomas reports for Al Jazeera - click here to watch a video.

India: Centre’s TB notification fails to yield desired result (post)

It was in May 2012 that the Government of India had made it mandatory for private practitioners in the country to notify the local health authorities about cases of tuberculosis. The TB notification was issued to improve adherence and completion of the treatment and also to fight the steadily rising cases of drug-resistant TB.

European Union Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction launched (post)

On 14-15 January 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania, the European Union Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT) held its first Partnership Forum to kick off activities. HA-REACT addresses existing gaps in the prevention of HIV and other co-infections, especially tuberculosis and viral hepatitis, among people who inject drugs. This is a three-year project which was launched in late 2015 with core funding from the European Union (EU), and is being implemented by 23 partners in 18 EU Member States. Twelve collaborating partners are contributing additional expertise, among them the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

RID-TB Western Province Project: Vacant position (post)

The RID-TB Western Province Project is currently recruiting a Field Implementation Coordinator. The position is based in Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The closing date for applications is January 24, 2016.

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