Items tagged with TB programs
TBEC participates in WHO National TB Programme Review to Kyrgyzstan (post)
Kyrgyzstan is among the 27 high burden multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) countries in the world and also among the WHO European Region 18 TB High Priority Countries. Upon request by the Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan and as instructed by the Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, TB and M/XDR-TB Programme including the WHO Country Office in collaboration with the National TB Control Programme (NTP) conducted a midterm programme review of TB prevention, control and care activities during the 30 June-5 July 2014 period. Nonna Turusbekova, a temporary adviser to WHO, who is also a member of TBEC steering committee, assessed the engagement of civil society in TB response.
Bangladesh: TB still a major health problem (post)
Shahidul Islam (45), a resident of Chak Shyamnagar village of Meherpur Sadar upazila, had been suffering from cold, fever, chest pain and weight loss for a month. He took treatment from a local private clinic and then from a hospital in Khulna. He had to spend a lot of money, but his problem was not solved.
A pragmatic approach to measuring, monitoring and evaluating interventions for improved tuberculosis case detection (post)
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Fighting India’s silent epidemic (post)
Tackling TB requires both strengthening the public sector and engaging the private sector
US charity, a seasoned player in North Korea, helps it fight stubborn strains of TB (post)
WASHINGTON - Despite worsening U.S.-North Korean relations, an American charity is ramping up efforts against an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the isolated country, where it says it is making inroads in fighting the deadly disease.
Present tuberculosis research model broken, failing patients: expert (post)
MOSCOW, October 19 (RIA Novosti) - Colleen Daniels, Director for TB and HIV at the US-based NGO Treatment Action Group, says that stagnating investment into the treatment of tuberculosis has resulted in a great deal of unnecessary suffering, and could lead to a serious epidemic in the future.
WHO to cooperate more closely with Romania on improving TB services (post)
WHO/Europe will strengthen its partnership with Romania to improve the quality and delivery of tuberculosis (TB) services, turn the tide against drug-resistant TB, and accelerate the implementation of structural health system reforms in the country. These were the main themes of a high-level visit to Romania on 13–14 October 2014 by Dr Hans Kluge, Director, Division of Health Systems and Public Health and Special Representative of the Regional Director to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant (M/XDR) TB, Dr Marc Sprenger, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and Mr Nicolas Cantau, Regional Manager of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Pakistan: Assembly bills: TB now a notifiable disease (post)
KARACHI: The Sindh Tuberculosis Bill, passed by the Sindh Assembly on Monday, has made tuberculosis (TB) a notifiable disease. This means that it is required by law to be reported to government authorities as the information will allow authorities to monitor the disease and provide early signs of an outbreak.
USAID launches new tuberculosis program in Kyrgyz Republic (post)
On November 12th, at 10 am, the launch of the new Defeat TB program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will take place at the Republican Scientific Medical Library in Bishkek. Representatives from the Ministry of Health and other branches of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, the U.S. Embassy and international organizations will be in attendance. The five year Defeat TB program will promote international standards for tuberculosis care, and will reduce the spread of tuberculosis including its multi-drug resistant form. The program, implemented by Abt Associates, will complement the national health care strategy on tuberculosis. It will also support the National Tuberculosis Program in expanding the outpatient model for treating TB.
Inadequate funding, low access threaten Nigeria’s TB control programme (post)
Insufficient funding and poor access to proper treament services are hampering Nigeria’s efforts to combat the menace of tuberculosis, a disease that killed an estimated 1.5 million people in 2013 including 360,000 people who were living with HIV.
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