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Xpert test for TB could help prevent deaths in southern Africa, but at substantial cost

A rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) could help to reduce TB deaths, improve TB treatment, and also offer reasonably good value for money if introduced in southern Africa, an area that has high rates of HIV and a type of TB that is resistant to some drugs (multi-drug resistant TB), according to a study published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Published
21 November 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
TB diagnosis
MSF: Standard TB test failing to detect the disease in children 93% of the time

New MSF multinational study of paediatric TB/HIV co-infection confirms crisis of undiagnosed TB among children

Published
16 November 2012
From
Médecins Sans Frontières press release
Drug-resistant TB
MSF: Implementation of new test increases drug-resistant TB diagnosis while shortening treatment initiation time

Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Published
15 November 2012
From
Médecins Sans Frontières press release
TB prevention
Risk of recurrence of active TB is high for people with HIV

People living with HIV who have a history of active tuberculosis (TB) have a significant risk of the recurrence of the disease, investigators report in the online

Published
22 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Drug-resistant TB
Capacity to diagnose M/XDR-TB strengthened across Europe

WHO/Europe has established the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative (ELI) to increase laboratory capacity to diagnose multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) across WHO European Region, as part of a consolidated action plan for 2011–2015.

Published
19 October 2012
From
WHO Europe
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
TB diagnosis
As multidrug-resistant tuberculosis continues to spread, new efforts to coordinate TB detection and treatment hold promise

TB Alliance and FIND announce collaboration to promote development of TB drugs and diagnostics.

Published
17 October 2012
From
TB Alliance
Promoting HIV testing
South Africa: Taking HIV Testing to Homes

Home-based HIV testing, which enables people to have an HIV test in the privacy of their own home without having to go to a health facility, is one of the newest efforts to be introduced in South Africa to get people to know their HIV status.

Published
20 September 2012
From
allAfrica.com
TB diagnosis
Symptom Screening Can Miss TB in HIV Patients on ART

Symptom screening alone can't rule out tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients, especially if these patients are on antiretroviral medications, new research shows.

Published
17 September 2012
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
TB prevention
HIV and TB in Practice: Moving towards combination TB prevention

This article looks at research on TB prevention, in particular the move towards combination TB prevention.

Published
06 August 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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