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  • 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.

    21 January 2013 | Science Speaks

  • 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.

    17 October 2012 | WHO

  • 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”.

    04 September 2012 | ECDC press release

  • 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.

    01 April 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

  • 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.

    26 March 2012 | NICE press release

  • 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.

    21 March 2012 | UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development

  • PERU: In Prison, a Little Health Care Goes a Long Way

    "I caught tuberculosis, but I'm lucky because it's been cured," says Hernán Arévalo from his bed in the new hospital at the Peruvian prison of Lurigancho, one of the most crowded and dangerous in Latin America. "Before, whoever came in here was unlikely to get out alive."

    20 January 2012 | Inter Press Service

  • Cambodia - MSF Steps Up Tuberculosis Support

    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its tuberculosis (TB) support in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham while continuing to help shape the nation’s national TB programme.

    03 January 2012 | MSF

  • 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.

    03 November 2010 | Business Day
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