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Drug-resistant TB
India must address worrying stock out of tuberculosis drugs

Indian government drug tender process leads to deadly delay in drug supply.

Published
17 June 2013
From
MSF
TB treatment
Directly Observed Therapy for Tuberculosis No Better than Self-Administration

People who self-administered drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) and those receiving directly observed therapy (DOT) had similar outcomes, according to a meta-analysis of 10 studies described in the July 2013 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Published
14 June 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Drug-resistant TB
Interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline to treat MDR-TB

This interim guidance provides advice on the inclusion of bedaquiline in the combination therapy of MDR-TB in accordance with the existing WHO Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (2011 Update).

Published
13 June 2013
From
World Health Organization
TB vaccine
TB vaccine business case: lifesaving TB vaccines feasible

The global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic annually causes 1.4 million deaths and is estimated to cost the global economy €290 billion per year. Vaccines that could prevent people from acquiring, developing and transmitting disease would be the single most effective tool in mitigating this epidemic. Making new TB vaccines available to the world over the next 10-15 years is estimated to cost approximately €600 million, utilizing a highly efficient portfolio approach and adequate funding.

Published
12 June 2013
From
Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative
TB diagnosis
UK: Tuberculosis screening scheme extended

In phase 2 of the Home Office's attempts to tackle the increase in tuberculosis (TB) coming into the UK, immigrants from another 11 countries will have to be pre-screened if they plan to stay in the country for longer than six months.

Published
12 June 2013
From
Public Service
TB treatment
Shortages of Drugs Threaten TB Fight

The U.S., India and other nations are facing shortages of tuberculosis drugs—threatening to reverse decades of progress against a deadly disease that is becoming increasingly untreatable.

Published
06 June 2013
From
Wall Street Journal
Drug-resistant TB
Faces Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Drug-resistant TB can now be found all over the planet, but some of the greatest concentrations of the disease are in the former Soviet Union. The tiny country of Moldova, which sits right at the edge of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, has one of the highest rates of MDR-TB in the world outside of Africa.

Published
05 June 2013
From
NPR
TB treatment
My Four-year Battle with Tuberculosis

During the two years of difficult treatment, I remember thinking, "Isn't there any other way? Aren't there better drugs that don't take as long? Isn't there something that could prevent this disease in the first place?"

Published
29 May 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
Access to medicines and treatment
Health Care for Immigrants Crumbling in Spain

The death of a young Senegalese man from tuberculosis in Spain, following alleged lack of medical care, triggered a new outcry by civil society organisations against the law passed last year that excludes undocumented immigrants from the public health system except in emergencies.

Published
28 May 2013
From
Inter Press Service
TB services
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
24 May 2013
From
Healio
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