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Brief news reports on Tuberculosis
By
World Health Organization
Published: May 24, 2022, 8:17 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
On 9 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene a civil society Town Hall on ending TB in close collaboration with the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB. The Town Hall will be led by WHO Director-General, senior WHO leadership and members of the Task Force.
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By
Stop TB Partnership
Published: May 24, 2022, 4:51 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
The 35th meeting of the Stop TB Partnership Board, held on 19-20 May 2022, called for an urgent enhancement of political commitment and funding to end TB by 2030, and for placing TB high on the political agenda ahead of 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on TB.
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By
Catherine Tomlinson
Published: May 23, 2022, 3:36 p.m.·
Tags:
TB programs,
Prevention,
Guidelines
In their current form, South Africa’s TB preventive therapy (TPT) guidelines are out of step with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s guidance on TPT that recommends the use of new, shorter course TPT regimens, as well as providing TPT to all household contacts of people with TB.
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By
Stop TB Partnership
Published: May 20, 2022, 8:33 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
Advocacy
Words Matter for people affected by TB: Call for everyone to champion empowering language free from stigma and discrimination.
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By
Kelly M. Percival, PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID
Published: May 20, 2022, 7:26 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Treatment
In February, the CDC released provisional guidance for the use of pretomanid as part of the bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (BPaL) regimen to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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By
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Published: May 20, 2022, 2:19 p.m.·
Tags:
Drug-resistant TB,
Pediatrics,
Prevention
New modelling study suggests that testing household contacts and preventive treatment could avert almost 4,000 deaths in children under 15 globally every year.
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By
Stop TB Partnership
Published: May 19, 2022, 8:43 p.m.·
Tags:
Global TB response,
TB epidemiology
New Digital TB Surveillance System Report on 19 countries.
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By
World Health Organization
Published: May 19, 2022, 3:05 p.m.·
Tags:
TB care,
Access
19 May 2022 | Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with Ukraine, countries hosting refugees, affected populations and partners to rapidly respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by war and minimize disruptions to the delivery of critical health care services. As part of these overarching efforts, WHO is working to enable access to tuberculosis (TB) care services for all people with or at risk of TB within Ukraine and in refugee-hosting countries.
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By
Tiyese Jeranji
Published: May 18, 2022, 3:27 p.m.·
Tags:
Diagnostics
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year 40% of people who fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) globally are not diagnosed. There is thus an urgent need for faster, safe, and more convenient TB tests. The current gold standard of testing still requires people to cough up sputum, something that some people and children, in particular, struggle with. The coughing up of sputum also poses an infection risk to healthcare workers collecting sputum samples.
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By
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Published: May 17, 2022, 2:25 p.m.·
Tags:
Scientific research
PITTSBURGH, 17 May 2022 – Unlike other infectious diseases that affect the lungs, the immune response to fight tuberculosis (TB) infections develops at least twice as slowly. Until recently, the dynamic interplay between bacteria and the host’s immune system remained unclear, hampering the development of effective therapies against the disease, which kills more people worldwide than HIV/AIDS and is second only to COVID-19.
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