Tuberculosis

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18-year-old Mouniratou in Bobo-Dioulassou is happiness itself. Two weeks ago she took her last pill, putting an end to a six-month long treatment for tuberculosis, still a major public health problem in Burkina Faso. More than 2700 new cases were reported in 2008. (AllAfrica)

When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out. (AllAfrica)

TANZANIA is one of the 22 countries with the highest Tuberculosis burden in the world, despite having a well-functioning TB programme, based on World Health Organisation (WHO) strategy for the last 25 years. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations-backed Global Fund has approved new grants worth $2.4 billion for projects aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years. (AllAfrica)

Programmes supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reported 2.3 million people on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in June 2009. (AllAfrica)

Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB and HIV services. (AllAfrica)

Global Health Initiatives (GHI) funding for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has had positive impacts on overall health sector financing and related reforms, among them significant increases in resources for the health sector and the ability to afford expensive, but life-saving technologies and interventions. (AllAfrica)

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in its largest-ever malaria initiative, will provide 30 million long-lasting treated mosquito nets to Nigeria, a move applauded by the official tasked with spearheading United Nations efforts to tackle the disease. (AllAfrica)

An HIV/AIDS opportunistic disease, Tuberculosis thought to be gradually fading out of the country may be staging a dangerous comeback with the discovery of Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) types currently being reported in some health care delivery institutions. (AllAfrica)

Civil society groups are blaming conditions set by the International Monetary Fund for saddling patients with high medical bills and increasing the prevalence of infectious diseases such as Aids and tuberculosis. (AllAfrica)

The health ministry is pushing for the national health budget to be ring-fenced and is looking at the establishment of South African National AIDS Council (SANAC)-type implementation bodies that function separately from the department and have oversight over all the role-players, deputy health minister Dr Molefi Sefularo revealed yesterday. (AllAfrica)

The Ugandan Commissioner General of Prisons Johnson Byabashaija has commended Rwanda's prison standards. (AllAfrica)

Dr Jorge Sampaio, the United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis recently addressed the 59th World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. He reminded ministers that putting money in TB is one of the most cost effective public health investments. (AllAfrica)

Senior United Nations officials today praised Rwanda for successfully integrating the treatment of patients suffering from HIV and tuberculosis after witnessing first-hand the delivery of health services in the African nation. (AllAfrica)

BRAVO Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi, for frankly acknowledging the dismal state of the nation's health. (AllAfrica)

A special series of the Lancet focusing on South Africa spells out in painful detail how many of our health indicators are the worst in the world. But while our health system is littered with lost opportunities, the Zuma government brings the possibility of real progress, argue the series authors. (AllAfrica)

As panic over swine flu continues to mount, health experts say TB is still the most serious threat facing the country. Although the respiratory disease claims an estimated 1000 lives per day in South Africa, doctors feel the media has neglected TB coverage and instead created a disproportionate anxiety over H1N1, responsible for fewer than 10 deaths over three months since it hit the country. (AllAfrica)

The programme is to enable young researchers consolidate role of biomedical science in the development of Africa. (AllAfrica)

Despite prevention and control efforts, malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS remain the biggest health issues in West African sub region with children, women, especially pregnant ones at the receiving end. However, regardless of all actions taken, the situation is still alarming. Recently however, women across the West African sub region, under the auspices of West African Women Association (WAWA) converged on Dakar, Senegal to look for a way out in the fight against these diseases. (AllAfrica)

To contribute to the reduction of Tuberculosis (TB) in the country, the Ministry of Health is set to introduce a new quick-testing method for the disease that will avail results within a week. (AllAfrica)

There is serious bureaucracy, mismanagement and lack of capacity to utilise Global Fund (GF) grants to Tanzania, according to a GF audit report. (AllAfrica)

For the first time in eighty years, a new Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has entered the efficacy stage of a clinical trial. While the developers are optimistic about the outcome, lung health and TB experts are warning against being overly excited. (AllAfrica)

A team from the Global Fund to fight HIV and Aids, tuberculosis and malaria arrived in the country yesterday to discuss a review of Round 8 financing for Zimbabwe's programmes in the areas covered by the organisation. (AllAfrica)

A week since the Court of Appeal granted him bail, Teddy Seezi Cheeye, 51 remains in Luzira Prison after failing to raise sh60m to pay for bail. (AllAfrica)

PRISONERS and staff of Luzira and Gulu prisons will be counselled and tested for HIV over the next one year, courtesy of the AIDS Information Centre (AIC). (AllAfrica)

THE Government has allocated sh4b to Hassan Basajjabalaba's teaching hospital, the health state minister, Richard Nduhura, has said. (AllAfrica)

SA HAS made progress in controlling and curing tuberculosis (TB) since experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) visited the country in 2005, but after their visit last week they said a greater emphasis was needed on patients with HIV, who are susceptible to TB. (AllAfrica)

Healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal are almost six times more likely to contract drug resistant tuberculosis than the general population in the province, a poster presentation at 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) has revealed. (AllAfrica)

Kenyan health experts have warned that the country is sitting on a tuberculosis time-bomb, and are suggesting that the disease be declared a national emergency like HIV/Aids. (AllAfrica)

A high level World Health Organisation (WHO) delegation has given South Africa's tuberculosis (TB) programme cautious thumbs up pointing out that the critical integration of TB and HIV services were not satisfactory and that infection control at health facilities was lacking. (AllAfrica)

TUBERCULOSIS and HIV/AIDS are the major health threats in the Karas Region, according to Keetmanshoop State Hospital Principle Medical Officer, Dr Vyacheslav Verkhusha. (AllAfrica)

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