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  • Transmission

    Only people with active pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis are infectious to other people. People who have latent or extrapulmonary tuberculosis are not infectious. M. tuberculosis...

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  • Think TB

    TB is one of the major killers in people with HIV. This publication brings together research on the management of TB in people with HIV....

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  • Preventing TB

    Until 2005, school children in the UK and most other European countries were given a vaccination against TB, called BCG. However, this vaccination does not...

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  • Short-Term TB Combination as Successful as Isoniazid Therapy

    Weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid given under direct supervision for 3 months was as effective in preventing tuberculosis (TB) as 9 months of daily self-administered isoniazid, according to a report published in the December 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

    09 December 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)

  • CDC releases new 12-dose treatment guidelines for latent TB infection

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled new guidelines Thursday for the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in the U.S. with a 12-dose regimen, administered once-weekly under directly observed therapy (DOT). The current regimen requires daily drug administration over nine months, making the new treatment simpler and easier for patients.

    08 December 2011 | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News

  • Vaccine targeting latent TB enters clinical testing

    Statens Serum Institute and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease.

    01 December 2011 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

  • 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

  • Tuberculosis Presents Double Threat to Women With HIV in Zambia

    Justina Banda, 44,says that because she is HIV-positive, it makes her extra prone to tuberculosis, TB. She has had TB three times, most recently last year. 

    02 June 2011 | Global Press Institute

  • Research offers simpler, effective treatment option for latent TB infection

    Results from one of the largest U.S. government clinical trials on tuberculosis preventive therapy to date suggest that treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection – normally a difficult and lengthy regimen – may soon be easier than ever before in countries with low-to-medium incidence of TB.

    16 May 2011 | US CDC

  • South Africa: Poor Response to TB and HIV

    Health Department programmes have failed to screen HIV-positive people for TB and to protect them from getting the bacterial infection.

    24 March 2011 | AllAfrica

  • ZIMBABWE: Fighting Past Fear to Treat TB

    In the dusty streets of Bulawayo's densely populated townships, Susan Nkiwane is making house calls today. She is one of a group of twelve women who form a fragile web of support for TB sufferers in her community.

    24 March 2011 | Inter Press Service

  • ETHIOPIA: Reducing TB risk in Addis Ababa

    Health officials in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, are concerned about the spread of tuberculosis in the city's crowded public transport networks and tightly packed "DSTV [satellite television] houses" where ardent fans come to watch English and Spanish football.

    23 March 2011 | IRIN Plus News
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