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Tuberculosis control in India — time to think beyond DOTS

TB control in India is at a critical juncture. The routine, basic DOTS program has been scaled-up and may have reached its limits because TB incidence is not declining. Therefore, innovative solutions are needed to go beyond current gains and address the challenges of private sector engagement and drug-resistant TB, and leverage the potential of the private sector to help achieve the new goal of universal access.

Published
11 hours ago
From
Science Speaks
TB services
CDC report on U.S. TB drug shortage reflects local and global challenges

According to an article in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the 26 health departments handling about 75 percent of the United States tuberculosis caseload have confronted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, with 21 of those departments — more than 80 percent – facing obstacles to getting the medicine necessary to treat it.

Published
21 January 2013
From
Science Speaks
TB treatment
20 million lives saved through TB care and control

An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the WHO Global tuberculosis report 2012.

Published
17 October 2012
From
WHO
Tuberculosis and HIV
TB control – a “common responsibility”, says ECDC Director

“We must embrace the concept of common responsibility between high burden and low burden countries, creating a platform for a truly global action against TB’, concluded the ECDC Director. ‘This is why I am particularly pleased that ECDC and the European Respiratory Society have developed 21 patient-centred standards that aim to guide clinicians and public health workers in their daily work to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB in the EU”.

Published
04 September 2012
From
ECDC press release
TB services
Towards TB elimination: ECDC and ERS introduce new guidelines on tuberculosis care in Europe

Today, the European Respiratory Society and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control publish their jointly developed European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care. The 21 patient-centered standards aim to guide clinicians and public health workers to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in Europe - with nearly 74,000 reported TB cases in the EU/EEA in 2010 clearly showing that TB remains a public health challenge across the region.

Published
01 April 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
TB services
New UK guidance points the way to tackling tuberculosis among hard-to-reach groups

New public health guidance from NICE published today, ahead of World TB day (24 March), provides a blueprint for improving the way tuberculosis (TB) is identified and managed among groups of people who are hard to reach through traditional health care services.

Published
26 March 2012
From
NICE press release
TB services
Fighting TB/HIV coinfection: realising commitments through integrated programming

To coincide with World TB Day the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development has today released a policy briefing “Fighting TB/HIV Co-Infection: Realising Commitments Through Integrated Programming”. The briefing seeks to highlight the rationale for integration, and also explore the opportunities and challenges to promoting greater integration.

Published
21 March 2012
From
UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
TB services
New one-roof policies on TB, HIV/AIDS ‘are challenging’

Putting the South African government’s new policies for integrating tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS care into practice is proving extremely challenging, says Cape Town specialist.

Published
03 November 2010
From
Business Day
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