HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis And Malaria Are Still Emergencies
Communities Living with HIV, Tuberculosis and affected by Malaria Delegation of the Board of the GFTAM
A statement from the Communities Living with HIV, Tuberculosis and affected by Malaria Delegation of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria welcomes the report of the High-Level Independent Review Panel (HLP) and acknowledges the recommendations put forth in strengthening fiduciary controls and oversight mechanisms at all levels of the Global Fund, which are consistent with its values of transparency and accountability.
Vaccines Against Major Childhood Diseases to Reach 37 More Countries
GAVI Alliance
The GAVI Alliance today announced it will provide funding for 16 more developing countries to introduce rotavirus vaccines and 18 more countries to introduce pneumococcal vaccines -- a major step towards protecting children against severe diarrhoea and pneumonia -- the two leading child killers.
Making Tuberculosis History: BRAC Releases New Book On Their TB Program
BRAC.net
BRAC prepares to release a thorough, reflective documentation, capturing the broader elements of the history, collective insights, support systems, strategic thinking, and overall, the story of what has built their highly lauded TB program. Making Tuberculosis History will be formally launched on October 27th at the 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health. All conference participants are welcome to attend. BRAC plans to hold additional book launch activities in Dhaka, New York, Boston in the coming months. Those interested in purchasing the book can find information at the University Press Limited website.
Urine test for TB shows promise
Testing urine samples for specific chemicals could serve as a quick and painless way to detect tuberculosis (TB), according to Indian researchers.
Bayer Joins TB Battle
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Bayer Healthcare has pledged its support to a Tuberculosis (TB) partnership by providing 620,000 tablets of the antibiotic moxifloxacin to the World Health Organization (WHO), which will make the tablets available to China's national TB program. In particular, the medicine will be used to fight multidrug-resistant TB.
Shortage of Drug-Resistant TB Treatment Looms
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While countries are rolling out new tests that will enable them to diagnose more patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), a worldwide shortage of the drugs to treat these patients is likely, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.
Mapping a New Course to Defeat Tuberculosis
"I don't know the death rate, but it certainly is regularly lethal," says Patterson. He's speaking of tuberculosis, a disease that most Canadians never encounter except perhaps in a storybook set long ago. Hasn't TB long been banished from developed countries like Canada? No it hasn't.
TB’s slow-motion Africa disaster
http://www.timescolonist.com
With the famine in Somalia a new threat to millions of lives, it might seem an unlikely time to call for increased spending on HIV/TB co-infection. But the disaster in the Horn of Africa has been years in the making, and due in no small part due to global neglect. Much could have been done, but wasn't, and now the world is responding after the fact, when lives have already been lost and aid much more difficult to provide.
New TB drug-resistance test shows promise but needs investment for those diagnosed to be cured
http://www.eurekalert.org
Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which can detect TB within 2 hours and has been endorsed by the World Health Organization, can significantly increase TB detection rate compared to other tests, particularly in HIV positive patients who have a high risk of being infected with TB, including multidrug resistant TB. An accompanying Essay and Perspective highlight the economic challenges and implications of such diagnostic tests.
Lack of awareness, facilities resulted in low TB detection rate
http://www.e-pao.net
The Tuberculosis(TB) detection rate is still low in Manipur comparing to the national detection level. It's because of lack of awareness,facilities and poor communication due to geographical location.
