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  Strengthening labs and introducing new tools for increased case detection and earlier diagnosis of TB

  This edition looks at the relationship between strengthening of laboratory diagnostic capacity and intensified case finding for TB in people living with HIV...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  An intensive household counselling intervention reduces the burden of TB in ZAMSTAR study

  An intensive ‘household counselling’ intervention (involving TB contact tracing, multiple home visits, TB and HIV counselling and screening with linkages to care) reduced the prevalence of culture-positive...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Spurring community engagement to ensure the proper implementation of the Three I’s for TB/HIV

  WHO and civil society organisations met to examine ways of promoting greater community engagement to ensure implementation of Three I’s for TB/HIV in southern Africa....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  New joint guidelines on IPT and intensified case-finding from WHO

  New guidelines on prevention of TB in people with HIV through use of isoniazid preventive therapy and intensified case-finding....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Managing MDR-TB in the community: from presentation to cure or end-of-life care

  Part of a series, this edition examines the sequence of care of a person with drug-resistant TB. ...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Towards more compassionate and effective care for drug resistant TB: improving diagnosis and case detection

  The second in a series of articles on improving care for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, this edition of HATIP focuses on detection and diagnosis....

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  HATIP #36, 3rd November 2004

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  HATIP #60, 23rd December, 2005

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  Childhood TB (part 2): presentation and diagnosis

  Review of the symptoms and diagnosis of TB in children, with particular reference to HIV. ...

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  Think TB in people with HIV: start routinely screening for TB now

  Review of intensified case finding for TB, with a focus on screening tools, algorithms for testing, and discussion of the most useful and specific symptoms...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

TB diagnosis in your own words

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  TB - my experiences

  This might sound odd, but I was really shocked when I became seriously ill because of HIV. I was even more shocked when it turned...

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TB diagnosis news from aidsmap

• Is self-testing for HIV on the way in Africa?

  Self-testing for HIV using oral tests could radically increase HIV testing rates in tuberculosis programmes, TB researchers argued this weekend at the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Berlin. Similarly, community sputum collection points where individuals can go to ...

  15 November 2010 | Keith Alcorn

• TB still killing 4000 people with HIV each day, WHO reports

  Tuberculosis is still killing more than 4000 people with HIV every day worldwide, the World Health Organization reported this week. Despite progress over the past few years, more needs to be done to identify and treat HIV in ...

  12 November 2010 | Keith Alcorn

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TB diagnosis news selected from other sources

• Inaccurate TB blood tests commonplace in many TB high-burden countries

  Although recent press attention has highlighted the problematic use of TB serological tests by medical providers in India, a new paper in The European Respiratory Journal (Widespread use of serological tests for tuberculosis: data from 22 high-burden countries) demonstrates that the use of these tests is much wider spread.

  03 February 2012 | Science Speaks

• TANZANIA: Good results in programme to boost TB detection

  A pilot community programme to improve TB detection in northern Tanzania has shown good results and could be replicated nationwide as the country seeks to improve its TB treatment and prevention systems.

  01 February 2012 | IRIN PlusNews

• New Tests for Latent TB May Be Unreliable in Pregnancy

  A new report warns against using interferon gamma release assays (IGRA) to look for tuberculosis in pregnant women.

  22 December 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)

• Molecular Test for TB Works Best Combined With Sputum Smear

  A rapid molecular test for tuberculosis (TB) endorsed last year by the World Health Organization turns out to be most accurate and economic when it's used in combination with sputum microscopy, a new study from South Africa shows.

  22 December 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)

• Discordance among commercially-available diagnostics for latent TB infection

  In populations with a low prevalence of tuberculosis, the majority of positives with the three tests commercially available in the US for the diagnosis of TB are false positives, according to a new study.

  09 December 2011 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

• UK: New tuberculosis cases fall by 5%

  New cases of tuberculosis (TB) decreased by nearly 5% last year compared to 2009, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said.

  06 December 2011 | Press Association

• Tuberculosis breakthrough as scientists get funds for 'electronic nose'

  A team of Indian researchers are planning to have a prototype of an "electronic nose" that can detect tuberculosis from a person's breath in hospitals by October 2013, after receiving a $950,000 grant on Monday.

  08 November 2011 | The Guardian

• NanoLogix Technology Delivers Live Tuberculosis (TB) Detection Results in a Revolutionary 4 Days versus Traditional 21 Days

  Third Party Research Study Results Are 500% Faster Than Conventional Tests

  02 November 2011 | Business Wire (press release)

• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Door-to-door outreach cuts TB prevalence

  Home-based tuberculosis (TB) education and testing reduced community TB prevalence by about 20 percent, according to findings of a large, two-country study released at the International Lung Health Conference in Lille, France.

  01 November 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• Study finds community counseling reduced the prevalence of TB on a budget

  The results of a large-scale community-randomized trial presented at the 42nd World Conference on Lung Health in Lille, France today show that the Zambia-South Africa TB and AIDS Reduction (ZAMSTAR) project reduced the prevalence of tuberculosis by 22%.

  30 October 2011 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

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