Madhukar Pai
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Madhukar Pai
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 11:34 p.m.·
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TB programs
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people today than HIV and malaria combined.
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Madhukar Pai
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 11:32 p.m.·
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Scientific research
Immigrant scientists play a vital role in the science and engineering workforce. In addition to contributing to their adopted countries, they have potential to use their talents to give back to their homelands. Giving back is not necessarily about giving dollars or relocating; there are a variety of routes to follow. While I can only speak from my personal experience in India, the lessons I have learned might be applicable to immigrant scientists from other countries.
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Madhukar Pai
Published: July 9, 2017, 8:16 p.m.·
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Global health,
Global TB response,
Advocacy
The G20 Leaders' Declaration carries an important section on antimicrobial resistance, and tuberculosis is identified as a priority for research and development.
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Madhukar Pai
Published: June 28, 2017, 11:44 p.m.·
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TB programs
India has not delivered because of poor investment and weak implementation, says Pai.
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Madhukar Pai,
Jennifer Furin
Published: May 3, 2017, 8:28 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Access
In a paper published in eLife, Madhukar Pai and Jennifer Furin summarized the uptake of new TB tools such as GeneXpert, bedaquiline and delamanid, and identified the main barriers to scale-up and patient access.
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Madhukar Pai
Published: May 1, 2017, 7:53 p.m.·
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Vaccines
The 2nd Edition of the BCG World Atlas provides user friendly, open access, and easy to access data on the current TB vaccine, and provides the clinician, researcher, and public health practitioner alike with resources and information necessary to interpret current and novel TB diagnostics and conduct fruitful research on novel vaccines.
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Soumya Swaminathan,
Madhukar Pai
Published: March 28, 2017, 5:33 p.m.·
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Scientific research
The Channel features articles on all topics relevant to TB research and aims to showcase the most up-to-date research to assist various stakeholders in the fight against TB.
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Madhukar Pai,
Jorge Coarasa
Published: March 23, 2017, 10:56 p.m.·
Tags:
TB programs
Last month, India’s finance minister announced the government’s plan to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025 during the unveiling of the country’s Union Budget for 2017-2018. This is a welcome move: While ridding people of the burden of any disease is a worthy goal by itself, TB elimination provides perhaps one of the strongest economic cases for public intervention.
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Madhukar Pai,
Ramnath Subbaraman
Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 2:17 p.m.·
Tags:
TB programs,
TB care
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death globally. In 2015, WHO estimated that there were 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide. Six countries accounted for 60 per cent of the total burden, with India accounting for 27 per cent of the global cases. The WHO highlighted that about 4.3 million TB patients globally are "missed" by health systems annually and remain either untreated or unreported to national governments, which may undermine global efforts to combat TB. India alone has more than one million of these missing TB patients every year.
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