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Drug-resistant TB
Cochrane review gives thumbs up to GeneXpert test for detection of MDR-TB

This systematic review published in The Cochrane Library provides timely advice to clinicians and policymakers in countries where TB is a major public health problem.

Published
01 February 2013
From
Citizen News Service
Drug-resistant TB
French authorities fear drug-resistant tuberculosis from Eastern Europe

For several months, French hospitals have been receiving increasing numbers of patients from Eastern Europe with a multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB).

Published
30 January 2013
From
Euronews
Drug-resistant TB
Hospital exposure the source of XDR-TB infections, underlining the need for adequate infection control

Numerous hospital transmissions – rather than a single source – fuelled the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Tugela Ferry, South Africa, in 2005-06, research published

Published
30 January 2013
By
Michael Carter
Drug-resistant TB
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Drug-resistant TB

This article summarises the key recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB for nurses, and highlights examples of best practice in their care.

Published
28 January 2013
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Global health initiatives
Dr. Mark Dybul: The Big Push to Defeat AIDS, TB and Malaria

Every era offers something special. I think the most special thing about our current time is the incredible opportunity that scientific advances have provided in the field of global health, giving us the ability to completely control highly dangerous infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Published
23 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Finance and funding
South Africa pays a high cost for drug resistant tuberculosis: study

According to a study a case of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) costs South Africa about $26 392 (R234 516.67) to treat, which is four times that of drug resistant TB, which costs $6 772, and a 103 times more than drug sensitive TB, which costs $257.

Published
21 January 2013
From
Times Live
TB services
CDC report on U.S. TB drug shortage reflects local and global challenges

According to an article in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the 26 health departments handling about 75 percent of the United States tuberculosis caseload have confronted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, with 21 of those departments — more than 80 percent – facing obstacles to getting the medicine necessary to treat it.

Published
21 January 2013
From
Science Speaks
TB diagnosis
Steep fall in incidence of TB among HIV-positive heterosexuals in the UK

Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among HIV-positive heterosexual people in England and Wales declined significantly between 2002 and 2010, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The

Published
15 January 2013
By
Michael Carter
TB transmission
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: TB infection control

This article provides practical information for nurses on TB infection control.

Published
14 January 2013
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Tuberculosis and HIV
Tuberculosis and STD prevalence is different worry during EU presidency

Lithuania's EU Presidency during 2013 brings the spotlight on the country's very high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and TB.

Published
11 January 2013
From
Baltic Times
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