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African Health Ministers Commit to Ramped Up TB/HIV Treatment

Health ministers from Swaziland and South Africa have agreed to radically change the diagnosis and treatment of the co-epidemic of TB/HIV in their countries.

Published
10 hours ago
From
Voice of America
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The Union offers hope and practical advice on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The Union is marking World TB Day this year by publishing a new guide that offers clear, practical advice on one of the trickiest aspects of "stopping TB" – how to manage the estimated 310,000 patients who have multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Published
21 March 2013
From
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Drug-resistant TB
Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis

If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Published
20 March 2013
From
MSF
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Tuberculosis: Europe’s Ticking Timebomb

On World Tuberculosis Day the TB Europe Coalition called on the European Commission to substantially increase funding to fight tuberculosis in Europe. Tuberculosis causes not only illness and death, according to estimates, it costs EU Member States €15 million every week and €750 million every year.

Published
20 March 2013
From
TB Europe Coalition
Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat

WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said today that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

Published
18 March 2013
From
World Health Organization
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Global Drug Facility achieves price reduction for drug-resistant TB treatments

The Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility has reduced the price of several second-line drugs it supplies for the treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) by up to 26% compared to 2011 prices, resulting in a decrease in the overall cost of treatment.

Published
18 March 2013
From
Stop TB Partnership
Drug-resistant TB
An Activist’s Guide to Bedaquiline (Sirturo)

Bedaquiline (also known by its trade name, Sirturo, or as TMC207) is the first new drug from a new drug class to treat TB to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in over 40 years. This guide highlights important safety and efficacy data reported thus far and offers advocacy recommendations for activists to take forward. .

Published
12 March 2013
From
Treatment Action Group
Drug-resistant TB
Ukraine: Curbing the MDR-TB Epidemic in Prisons

Once considered a disease on the decline, tuberculosis (TB) has seen a resurgence in Ukraine and several other post-Soviet countries that endured social and economic tumult after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Published
10 March 2013
From
Doctors Without Borders
Drug-resistant TB
Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed On US Border

In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today.

Published
03 March 2013
From
Wall Street Journal
Drug-resistant TB
Cochrane review gives thumbs up to GeneXpert test for detection of MDR-TB

This systematic review published in The Cochrane Library provides timely advice to clinicians and policymakers in countries where TB is a major public health problem.

Published
01 February 2013
From
Citizen News Service
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