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US: TB programs affected by isoniazid shortage

A shortage of isoniazid interfered with patient care and may contribute to the spread of tuberculosis in the United States, according to a report by the CDC. “Interruptions in the supply of second-line anti-TB medications have been ongoing in the United States for several years,” the researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “But since November 2012, TB control programs have experienced the first sustained generalized supply interruption of a first-line anti-TB medication.”

Published
23 hours ago
From
Healio
TB prevention
Tuberculosis prevention may speed drug resistance

According to the new study, led by Harriet Mills at the University of Bristol, in communities that implement isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), the incidence of new isoniazid-resistant cases per year will double in the next 40 years.

Published
15 April 2013
From
Nature
TB diagnosis
The Search for Swaziland’s TB-Infected Mine Workers

“Mine workers come from the whole sub-region to our mines to catch TB and HIV and take it back to their families and communities,” South African Minister of Health Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi said.

Published
09 April 2013
From
Inter Press Service
Tuberculosis and HIV
Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

South Africa's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries. IRIN takes a look at the declaration meant to change this situation.

Published
25 March 2013
From
IRIN
TB prevention
The historical arc of tuberculosis prevention

It is somewhat ironic that just as the structural, social, and economic barriers to patient “non-compliance” are being taken seriously by the medical mainstream, the chief medical officer for England recently invoked a dystopian scenario of a drug-resistant bacterial rampage reminiscent of the early nineteenth century.

Published
24 March 2013
From
Oxford University Press blog
TB prevention
Virtual Issue: Tuberculosis

Collected articles on the social history of tuberculosis and TB control policies.

Published
24 March 2013
From
Social History of Medicine
TB prevention
MISSOURI: Senate Passes Bill to Increase Tuberculosis Screenings and Penalize Spreading the Disease

On February 14, the Missouri Senate voted unanimously to approve a bill requiring TB screening for more people and allow prosecution of those who spread the disease.

Published
21 February 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
TB prevention
Latent TB germs can hide in marrow cells, study says

Scientists have found a hiding place in the body where bacteria that cause tuberculosis may take refuge — a clue that could one day help target treatments more effectively and surmount a major obstacle to eradicating the global epidemic.

Published
20 February 2013
From
Boston Globe
TB prevention
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Pregnancy and TB/HIV

This article explains how to prevent and treat TB in pregnant women to protect both mother and child.

Published
14 February 2013
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB vaccine
Revived search for a TB vaccine may be about to pay off

After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Reuters
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