Tuberculosis

BCG revaccination started in India

Adult BCG vaccination study launched to accelerate effort to end TB by 2025 | The Navhind Times Goa News Adult BCG vaccination study launched to accelerate effort to end TB by 2025 By Navhind Times - 2024-01-11 0 164 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Staff Reporter Margao Goa has become the first state to launch a national study of the adult BCG vaccination, which is aimed at collecting informa...

Expanding Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing and Treatment in Massachusetts Primary Care Clinics via the ECHO Model - Daria Szkwarko, Michael E. Urbanowski, Rebecca Thal, Patricia Iyer, Susan Foley, Liisa M. Randall, John Bernardo, Judith A.... Introduction/Objectives: In the US, reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) accounts for 80% of new cases. In 2016, the US Preventive Services Task...

Our North American regional membership group is working with the National Tuberculosis Coalition of America (NTCA) to host an event in Baltimore, Maryland April 16 - 19. Registration is now open! For more info: https://conta.cc/49faxyu

Taking place online next week – an ERS scientific workshop: Lost in translation: bronchiectasis and COPD, similarities and differences (31 January, 2024)

Find out more by browsing the programme on the ERS website.

Register now: https://www.ersnet.org/events/lost-in-translation-bronchiectasis-and-copd-similarities-and-differences/

Funding for TB and Neglected Diseases Backslides NEW YORK (January 31, 2023)—The 2023 G-FINDER Report, released today, reveals that funding for neglected disease R&D fell by 10% from 2021 to 2022. In tuberculosis specifically, global investment fell to $702 million in 2022, from $772 million in 2021, with funding for TB drug research dipping by ...

Kenya launches ambitious 2023/24-2027/28 national strategic plan aimed at achieving 2030 TB elimination goals The Ministry of Health through the National Tuberculosis Leprosy and lung Disease program Kenya on Monday launched new National Strategic

"Promising preclinical and phase 1 trial results have prompted the TB Alliance to start a phase 2 trial, named NC-009, at 21 sites in five countries—Georgia, the Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda." Read more from The Lancet ➡️ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00401-9/fulltext

The STP Board Meeting will be held in Brasilia from 5 to 8 February. Join , Stop TB, Humana People to People Foundation for an event on 5 February from 5:30pm where political commitment to end TB will be profiled and the 2023 Stop TB Community Award for excellence in work with Key and Vulnerable Populations will be announced. We hope that those in Brasilia will be able to join!

Together we can

Monitoratb The Federation Humana People to People

Over 2 billion people worldwide are affected by TB infection.

Our FREE online training course helps healthcare professionals detect and treat Infection.

Find out more at https://coursesonline.theunion.org/

TB is amongst the top 10 causes of death for children under 5 yet it can be cured if diagnosed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) just published a factsheet on diagnosing Paediatric TB. You can find it here:
https://www.msfaccess.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/MSFAC_Factsheet_Paediatric%20TB%20diagnostics_Final.pdf

What ails poorer ?

What ails poorer families: Malnourishment among kids and hypertension among adults | Gurgaon News - Times of India A door-to-door screening drive covering approximately 44 lakh people in Haryana under the Nirogi Haryana scheme revealed key health issues. Malnourish

Dx tests for TB

Tracking down tuberculosis Improvements in screening and diagnosis could help to eradicate this curable disease.

AI power TB screening in India

Inhaled TB vaccine

Novel inhaled TB vaccine | University of Oxford The Jenner Institute is conducting a new study, using BCG, the current licensed vaccine against tuberculosis. In this study, they will give BCG a second time to people who have already had BCG once before, and will compare whether giving it by inhalation is better at protecting people against tuberc...

Chandigarh ending Tuberculosis

Chandigarh to start active TB case-finding activity by January end Chandigarh had earned the unfortunate distinction of having the highest tuberculosis rate in the country for the year 2023, reporting a staggering 475 cases per 100,000 people

KASHMIR
TB eradication progress

Tuberculosis Eradication program | Progress achieved reviewed - greaterkashmir Ramban, Jan 13: Deputy Commissioner Baseer ul Haq Choudhary today conducted an important meeting to assess the strides made in the district under Tuberculosis eradication program.The Chief Medical Officer highlighted the progress recorded. He said nearly 92 percent of the targeted 14,000 tests have....

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/university-houston-student-diagnosed-tuberculosis-18509623.php

Contact tracing underway after University of Houston student diagnosed with tuberculosis A University of Houston student diagnosed with tuberculosis was being treated off-campus while health officials weigh asking other people to get tested.

Tuberculosis infection highest in 30 years

Tuberculosis: First time TB infections highest in 30 years, raise global concern In 2022, 10.6 million people developed TB, 7.5 million of whom were diagnosed for the first time. The WHO said this was the highest record since 1995 and linked it to delays in treatment caused by COVID-19. Poor health seeking and isolation measures led to many not getting tested. TB is contagious a...

“The best treatments in the world will not be useful if we cannot find the people who need them” - Dr. Nina Russell, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02472-8/fulltext

Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava: enhancing TB prevention and care At the non-profit Jan Swasthya Sahyog (People's Health Support Group) that Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava set up with fellow physicians, the toll of tuberculosis was clear. Between 2000 and 2009, in their single centre in rural Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India, they diagnosed around 600 people with tuberc...

📆 Save the date!

Join us next week for as we organize and co-host a series of side events in – with topics ranging from 🔬 to 🫁

Together, we can . Find out more here: https://www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-endtb/join-stop-tb-partnership-events-paris

The latest World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report confirmed our post-COVID recovery but still killed 3,500 people per day.

but we need the funding promised in so more people will receive TB preventive treatment.

Read: https://www.stoptb.org/news/75-million-people-with-tb-were-diagnosed-and-treated-2022-highest-ever-accessing-tb-care

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https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2672316/ministry-ups-efforts-to-end-resistant-tb

Ministry ups efforts to end resistant TB The Public Health Ministry is intensifying efforts against drug-resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) as part of its goal of eradicating the disease from the country by the end of the decade.

https://punchng.com/our-battles-with-stigma-self-denial-almost-killed-us-tb-survivors/

Our battles with stigma, self-denial almost killed us – TB survivors Nigeria has the highest burden of Tuberculosis infection in Africa and is among the eight countries accounting

https://www.business-standard.com/content/press-releases-ani/metropolis-foundation-adopts-1-000-tuberculosis-tb-patients-in-mumbai-under-the-pradhan-mantri-tb-mukt-bharat-abhiyaan-123082100635_1.html

Metropolis Foundation adopts 1,000 Tuberculosis (TB) patients in Mumbai, under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 21: Metropolis Foundation, the CSR arm of Metropolis Healthcare, today announced that it has adopted 1000 TB patients in Mumbai under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan. This is the second cycle of the CSR programme, in which Metropolis Foundation will pro...