World Health Organization
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World Health Organization
Published: July 31, 2023, 9:30 p.m.·
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Diagnostics
31 July 2023 | Geneva-- To inform research and development priorities for tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics and address unmet needs, the World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating high-priority target product profiles (TPPs) for TB diagnostics. TPPs provide detailed technical specifications that are important to end-users (e.g. a test’s required performance) and operational characteristics to inform product manufacturers. Due to continuous developments in a TB diagnostic and treatment domains, there is ongoing need to regularly update TPPs in order to adapt them to an evolving context of a global TB control needs. Current update focuses on the TB diagnostic tests for peripheral settings.
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World Health Organization
Published: July 25, 2023, 9:24 p.m.·
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Drug-resistant TB,
Diagnostics
25 July 2023 | Geneva --Targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) for the detection of drug-resistant TB is a new class of diagnostic technology. It provides an option for rapid and accurate genetic analysis and detection of mutations associated with resistance in a fraction of the time required for culture-based methods for detecting resistance. Various commercially available “End-to-End” tests for targeted NGS have become available in recent years that can detect resistance to multiple drugs simultaneously, provide rapid results with testing directly on patient samples, and have the potential to assimilate new information on genetic markers for resistance as they become known.
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World Health Organization
Published: July 10, 2023, 6:17 p.m.·
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Global TB response
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched two new e-courses on national strategic planning for TB and systematic screening for TB disease. The new WHO e-courses have been added to the End TB Channel in OpenWHO. They are free of charge and self-paced. A certificate can be downloaded if a 80% score or higher is achieved in the final assessment.
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World Health Organization
Published: July 10, 2023, 6:05 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme has created an online platform to help users find practical advice to implement digital technologies to support TB care worldwide. The platform includes easy access to guidelines and job aids developed by WHO and technical partners, as well as links to key literature and country examples. The content is organized around four functions: person-centred care, programme management, surveillance and monitoring, and eLearning. The online platform will be updated regularly with the most recent guidance and tools.
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World Health Organization
Published: June 30, 2023, 4:12 p.m.·
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Medicines
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members of the Technical Advisory Group on dosing of TB medicines for adults and children. For further details about the advisory group, the expert profiles being sought, the process for experts to express interest, and the process of selection, click here.
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World Health Organization
Published: June 28, 2023, 1:53 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Pediatrics,
Treatment
The information notes complement the updated WHO guidelines and operational handbook on the management of TB in children and adolescents released in 2022.
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World Health Organization
Published: June 27, 2023, 8:41 a.m.·
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Guidelines
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World Health Organization
Published: June 20, 2023, 7:26 a.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Mobile populations,
Access
Worldwide, more people are on the move than ever before, with an estimated 103 million forcibly displaced people globally including an estimated 32.5 million refugees. Refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings face considerable threats to their health, wellbeing and survival, including crowded living conditions, poverty, undernutrition, precarious legal status, discrimination and poor access to health and social protection services, all conditions in which tuberculosis (TB) thrives. In most settings, refugees are more likely to be exposed to TB, develop TB disease once exposed and have poor health, social and economic outcomes as a result of it.
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World Health Organization
Published: June 8, 2023, 8:39 a.m.·
Tags:
Global health,
Global TB response
8 June 2023 | Geneva -- Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration, designed to build stronger and more resilient health systems and maximize collaboration and impact in support of country, regional and global responses to major communicable diseases.
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World Health Organization
Published: June 5, 2023, 8:31 a.m.·
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Scientific research
5 June 2023 | Geneva-- The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme is launching a new online platform to track progress in the development of new treatment regimens, vaccines as well as operational research projects designed to improve TB prevention, treatment, and care.
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