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Antiretroviral therapy as prevention: TB

Stephen Lawn reminded the audience at the International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver on Wednesday that antiretroviral therapy (ART) goes a long way to protect HIV-infected individuals from tuberculosis (TB).

Published
30 April 2012
From
Science Speaks
TB prevention
SWAZILAND: Nurses demand protection from TB infection

Hospitals are not protecting their workers from tuberculosis (TB) infection, say nurses in Swaziland, who recently staged a rare public demonstration to draw attention to how vulnerable they are to this highly infectious disease.

Published
27 April 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
TB diagnosis
Diagnosing and preventing TB in children

In the second part of this series, HATIP looks at diagnosing and preventing TB in children.

Published
30 March 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB services
New UK guidance points the way to tackling tuberculosis among hard-to-reach groups

New public health guidance from NICE published today, ahead of World TB day (24 March), provides a blueprint for improving the way tuberculosis (TB) is identified and managed among groups of people who are hard to reach through traditional health care services.

Published
26 March 2012
From
NICE press release
TB prevention
Can social protection improve tuberculosis control?

Whether current approaches to tackle tuberculosis can be integrated with social protection strategies was the subject of a recent meeting in London. Pamela Das reports.

Published
23 March 2012
From
The Lancet
Tuberculosis and HIV
Tuberculosis rises 8% in London - HPA figures

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said there were 3,588 new cases in the capital in 2011 - up from 3,309 the year before. The rise is thought to be connected to a rise in homelessness in the city.Nationally TB increased by 5%.

Published
23 March 2012
From
BBC
TB prevention
SOUTHERN AFRICA: TB preventative therapy scorecard

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of HIV-positive people globally. Almost 15 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended that people living with HIV be given isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT), to prevent active TB, but national implementation of IPT has been slow.

Published
23 March 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
TB prevention
Thibela TB: Community-wide IPT did not improve TB control in South Africa’s mines at the population level

Giving a six- to nine-month course of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) at a ‘community-wide level’ – to everyone working at randomly selected South African gold mines –

Published
15 March 2012
By
Theo Smart
TB prevention
SOUTH AFRICA: What the world's largest preventative TB study taught us

Even though the world's largest study of preventative tuberculosis therapy indicated that community-wide isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT) failed to lower community TB levels among 27,000 South African gold miners, that was not Thibela’s only result. We review some of the others over its seven years.

Published
13 March 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
TB prevention
Community-level preventive TB therapy in South African gold miners fails to bring down overall incidence

Individuals still saw TB incidence reduction of two-thirds, but effect was not durable Preliminary results from the Thibela Project – which looked at whether community-wide provision of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in South African gold mines would improve TB control in these high-incidence sites.

Published
12 March 2012
From
Science Speaks
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