World Health Organization
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World Health Organization
Published: April 6, 2021, 3:35 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Treatment,
Hepatitis C
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program has initiated a process to conduct systematic reviews for the collection and assessment of available evidence on the prevalence of viral hepatitis B and C among patients with TB and multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB) and whether the concurrent treatment of drug-resistant TB and hepatitis C is safe and increases the likelihood of treatment success and reduces unfavourable treatment outcomes.
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World Health Organization
Published: April 5, 2021, 12:24 a.m.·
Tags:
Diagnostics
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program is announcing a call for experts to serve as members of the Technical Advisory Group on TB Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening to advise WHO on technical aspects related to the assessment and implementation of TB diagnostic tools and TB diagnostic strategies.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 26, 2021, 12:04 a.m.·
Tags:
Guidelines,
Drug-resistant TB,
Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Program has initiated a process to update the consolidated guidelines on the treatment of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). The WHO Global TB Program is seeking support from independent researchers, academic institutions or other entities with relevant expertise and experience in systematic review and statistical analysis to perform the synthesis and analysis of the available data on new DR-TB treatment regimens for the guideline update.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 25, 2021, 12:25 a.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a special edition of its newsletter in commemoration of World TB Day, 24 March, highlighting #EndTB messages and statements from global leaders, video recordings of conducted events, released materials and documents, and other related news and updates from the organization.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 22, 2021, 3:30 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response
An estimated 1.4 million fewer people received care for TB in 2020 than in 2019 - a reduction of 21% from 2019, according to preliminary data compiled by the World Health Organization.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 16, 2021, 10:23 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Treatment
16 March 2021, Geneva | The World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Programme has initiated a process for the establishment of Global individual patient data platform for drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment (DR-TB IPD). The DR-TB IPD is a shared platform and collaborative initiative to generate reliable evidence on drug-resistant TB treatment to inform future TB treatment guidelines and be available for researchers to analyse. The purpose of the DR-TB IPD is to facilitate pooling of individual patient data issued from researchers, local or national databases in the context of drug-resistant TB treatment and facilitate policy update, development and public health research. It will be supported by the WHO Global TB Programme and maintained by the selected Data Curator. Data Curator is the entity in charge of maintenance, curation and hosting of the DR-TB IPD.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 11, 2021, 11:45 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a special virtual talk show to commemorate World TB Day on 24 March at 13:00H CET. This will put the spotlight on TB in the midst of the ongoing COVID crisis.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 11, 2021, 11:32 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
The Clock Is Ticking
Every day counts to save more lives
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By
World Health Organization,
GCTA
Published: March 9, 2021, 12:30 a.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
To commemorate the International Women's Day, 8 March 2021, the World Health Organization and the Global Coalition of TB Activists conducted a webinar, #ChooseToChallenge: A Gender-Sensitive & Equitable Response to End TB.
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World Health Organization
Published: March 9, 2021, 12:04 a.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response
The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 16 March 2021 to provide an overview of planned updates to WHO TB policy guidance in 2021, promote an exchange of views on how to effectively address emerging needs of Member States for policy, and deliberate on key actions needed to enhance the implementation and evaluation of global TB policy guidance.
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