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SOUTH AFRICA: Preventative TB trial disappoints

After seven years of research, the world's largest study of preventative tuberculosis (TB) therapy has found that untargeted, community-wide distribution of TB prevention drugs did not improve TB control on South African gold mines.

Published
09 March 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
TB diagnosis
Strengthening labs and introducing new tools for increased case detection and earlier diagnosis of TB

This edition looks at the relationship between strengthening of laboratory diagnostic capacity and intensified case finding for TB in people living with HIV

Published
20 January 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
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.

Published
09 December 2011
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
TB prevention
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.

Published
08 December 2011
From
Science Speaks
HIV and TB in Practice: Going beyond the clinic to eliminate TB and TB/HIV

Thanks to the following for their advice: Dr Liz Corbett,  Professor Helen Ayles and Professor Peter Godfrey-Faussett of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Published
06 December 2011
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB diagnosis
An intensive household counselling intervention reduces the burden of TB in ZAMSTAR study

An intensive ‘household counselling’ intervention (involving TB contact tracing, multiple home visits, TB and HIV counselling and screening with linkages to care) reduced the prevalence of culture-positive

Published
30 November 2011
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
ART and TB prevention

This edition explores what is known about the potential benefits and limits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for TB prevention and control.

Published
25 November 2011
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
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.

Published
01 November 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
TB diagnosis
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%.

Published
30 October 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Tuberculosis and HIV
Risk factors for development of TB after starting HIV therapy identified in North American research

The development of tuberculosis (TB) after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy is associated with a low CD4 cell count, injecting drug use, and non-white race, investigators from the

Published
25 August 2011
By
Michael Carter
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