Items tagged with TB programs
In Digital India, TB still makes public health care cough blood (post)
The general mood in India over the past weeks has been pretty upbeat. With reports of Prime Minister Modi "conquering" the Silicon Valley, and with Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai making it big on the global stage, we can't stop gushing about how "India's time has finally come".
Staff deaths at leading hospital put India's TB battle in spotlight (post)
Oct 12 - Campaigners and a former official overseeing Asia's largest tuberculosis hospital in Mumbai say staff deaths there are being under-reported, highlighting India's growing struggle to contain multi-drug resistant forms of the contagious, airborne disease.
Regional TB/HIV concept note in the EECA region will propose the use of “city service models” (post)
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine has received approval to submit a regional TB/HIV concept note in 2016. The concept note will focus on providing services to key affected populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia using a “city service model” pioneered in Western Europe.
Why there might be more women suffering from tuberculosis in India than we think (post)
One of Asia’s largest facility for treating tuberculosis, the 1,200-bed hospital in central Mumbai’s Sewri area, is a relic of the British Raj. It has high ceilings and open corridors, it is airy and quite unlike other public hospitals which are teeming with people all the time. It has nine wards, only three of which are dedicated to women. There is usually an eerie quietness in these wards, even during visiting hours, as many women patients do not get visitors for weeks on end.
Towards domestic funding of HIV and TB response in eastern Europe and central Asia (post)
WHO/Europe, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) and other partners organized a high-level regional meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia from 28–30 September 2015, to address regional challenges and discuss ways towards a successful transition to domestic funding of national responses to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics in countries of eastern Europe and central Asia (EECA).
Drug-resistant tuberculosis – London’s shame (post)
27 October 2015 - Tuberculosis (TB) poses a highly significant public health challenge in the capital today [2]. A significant minority of Londoners don’t know how TB is transmitted or what the symptoms are.
EECA regional initiative will address drug-resistant TB (post)
One of the grants recently approved by the Global Fund is the first ever regional TB grant in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The EECA is the region with the highest burden of the drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB: Less than 50% of cases have been detected and successfully treated.
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.
Uganda: Shs534 billion needed to eradicate TB - official (post)
Kampala, November 2, 2015 — The National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTLP) needs government to invest about Shs534b for a five-year tuberculosis programme if the country is to eliminate the disease.
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