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  • TB diagnosis
    Extrapulmonary tuberculosis - A challenging diagnosis
    ECDC video | 20 March 2013

    For World TB Day 2013, ECDC is launching a video documentary that focuses on extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Two patient stories illustrate how difficult the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB can be before proper treatment and care can start.

  • TB symptoms
    New ECDC/WHO Euro report: One in five TB patients has extrapulmonary tuberculosis
    ECDC | 20 March 2013

    In the European Union, one in five tuberculosis patients has extrapulmonary TB and unlike pulmonary TB, this form of the disease does not show a downward trend. Extrapulmonary TB is rarely infectious but contributes significantly to TB-related morbidity and can cause complications, lifelong sequelae and disabilities.

  • Tuberculosis and HIV
    UNITAID and TB Alliance call for more action against childhood tuberculosis
    UNITAID | 20 March 2013

    In spite of an estimated 500,000 new annual cases of children with tuberculosis (TB), there are no appropriate medicines for them, UNITAID and the TB Alliance warn.

  • Drug-resistant TB
    Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis
    MSF | 20 March 2013

    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.

  • Drug-resistant TB
    Tuberculosis: Europe’s Ticking Timebomb
    TB Europe Coalition | 20 March 2013

    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.

  • UK health services
    Jeremy Hunt accused of 'grossly unfair' allocation of public health funding
    The Guardian | 19 March 2013

    London's wealthy boroughs have been given more money than poorer areas to tackle smoking and obesity

  • Hepatitis B
    High maternal viral load key to vertical transmission of hepatitis B
    Medscape (requires registration) | 19 March 2013

    High maternal viral load is the most important factor causing maternally transmitted hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and is significantly correlated with e antigen (HBeAg) positivity, according to a prospective study from Taiwan.

  • Hepatitis C treatment
    Roche’s Pegasys receives EU approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in children five years of age and older
    Roche press release | 19 March 2013

    Roche announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has expanded the approval of Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) plus ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). The new label includes children and adolescents five years of age and older, who have not received treatment and who have tested positive for the virus.

  • Access to medicines and treatment
    Athens urged to import generic drugs
    Financial Times | 18 March 2013

    Public health advocates are petitioning the Greek government to overturn patent protection on costly medicines and import them from low-cost generic producers to ease the burden on the country’s medical system.

  • Drug-resistant TB
    World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat
    World Health Organization | 18 March 2013

    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.

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