Items tagged with TB programs
India achieved record TB notification in 2023 (post)
In 2022, India had notified 24,22,121 TB cases, which the India TB report 2023 remarked as a “milestone year for TB surveillance efforts in India, with a record high notification”.
Call for case studies and best practices: Adaptation and implementation of WHO MAF-TB (post)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program launched a call for case studies and best practices on adaptation and implementation of WHO’s Multisectoral Accountability Framework to end TB (MAF-TB). Political leaders, country officials within and beyond the health sector, program managers, civil society and affected communities, the private sector, UN agencies, partners, funders, and other governmental and non-governmental TB stakeholders are invited to submit examples of relevant case studies.
Kenya launches strategic plan to eliminate TB by 2030 (post)
NAIROBI, Jan. 22 -- Kenya's Ministry of Health on Monday launched the national strategic plan, with the aim of eliminating tuberculosis (TB), leprosy and other lung complications by 2030.
TB testing practices may miss high-risk groups (post)
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War in Ukraine: Maintaining lifesaving HIV and TB services (post)
Since the expansion of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, more than 14 million people have been internally displaced or forced to flee to neighboring countries as refugees, often losing access to health care. HIV and TB prevention and diagnosis services have been disrupted, and many people with HIV and TB have been forced to interrupt their lifesaving treatment. The war has left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity or water supplies, and almost half of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance.
'Catastrophic' private costs, poverty, malnutrition: What keeps India from achieving its TB goals (post)
Tuberculosis or TB, one of the top infectious diseases responsible for mortality worldwide, is one of those diseases that majorly affects those in the lower socio-economic group.
Fight against TB persists in the Philippines as disease remains a threat (post)
WHO’s latest data has highlighted the significant challenge tuberculosis continues to pose in the Philippines, revealing that in 2022, an alarming 737,000 individuals contracted TB. This translates to a new case every 43 seconds, underscoring the urgency of the situation.
New technology enables Philippines to bring TB diagnosis closer to people (post)
The Philippines has the fourth highest TB burden in the world and contributes 7% of global cases, behind India (27%), Indonesia (10%), and China (7.1%), according to the World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2021. But for the archipelagic country with 7,640 islands, citizens’ access to healthcare and diagnostic tools has been one of the greatest barriers to addressing TB.
India TB report: Decoding the key takeaways and why diabetes is a major risk factor (post)
While India has set the goal of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global target, the recently released government report has been a dampener — the number of cases and deaths recorded in 2023 was nowhere close to the targets that the country had set for itself. But all is not bleak. The Ni-kshay portal, which has been tracking cases, offering quick and accurate tests, has resulted in fewer “missing cases.”
Study highlights TB racial/ethnic disparities among US-born patients (post)
A new study by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found significant and persistent racial disparities in tuberculosis (TB) incidence among US-born residents. The findings were published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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