Tuberculosis

News : Tuberculosis

The Gauteng Department of Health is to roll out a Tuberculosis (TB) Crisis Plan to identified districts in the province in an effort to intensify the TB campaign to eradicate the disease. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNMENT will soon introduce a new drug for HIV and Aids patients to protect them from contracting tuberculosis. (AllAfrica)

Prevention remains a major challenge for those who develop and implement programs to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide, according to attendees of the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting held June 3-7 in Uganda. (AllAfrica)

Government has successfully been able to manage and treat more Tuberculosis (TB) patients in "crisis" areas such as Johannesburg, with the Department of Health reporting an increase in the TB cure rate. (AllAfrica)

People in low-resource countries who are ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis -- in two days, not the standard two to three months -- and appropriate treatment thanks to two new initiatives unveiled by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). (AllAfrica)

Mobilising communities into action is the best weapon to fight Tuberculosis (TB), says KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Finance and Economic Development, Dr Zweli Mkhize. (AllAfrica)

ZIMBABWE has already submitted a US$500 million application to fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria to the Global Fund under round 8. (AllAfrica)

The Tuberculosis (TB) awareness programme at the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town seems to be yielding positive results. (AllAfrica)

Faith Based Organisations have been challenged to open their doors and take part in TB and HIV campaigns to prevent the spread of the diseases and offer support to infected people and their families. (AllAfrica)

Government is seeing the fruits of the various programmes it has in place to manage patients who default on their Tuberculosis (TB) treatment. (AllAfrica)

A newly launched Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis tool is to help the country's health system to be able to diagnose drug resistant TB within seven days compared to the one currently used, which takes several months. (AllAfrica)

The private sector has been challenged to work in partnership with government to help fight Tuberculosis (TB) in the workplace. (AllAfrica)

Poverty is among the main reasons for the high treatment defaulter rate among Tuberculosis (TB) patients. (AllAfrica)

IN OUR deranged global system of relative rights, where one's money determines the value of one's life, it is not terribly surprising that very little research has been done on improving the management of tuberculosis (TB) - a leading cause of mortality in many poor countries - in the past 50 years. (AllAfrica)

ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED in the fight against HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing world need to improve the co-ordination of their programmes and co-operate more to avoid losing the gains made against the three diseases, a recent conference in Kampala was told. (AllAfrica)

Sekao Gadima*, a Motswana national working at Gold Fields' Driefontein Mine, is a tuberculosis patient at Leslie Williams Private Hospital. (AllAfrica)

Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr Yari Everton Peter, has disclosed that about 1,200 cases of tuberculosis have so far been detected in the first quarter of 2008 across the state. (AllAfrica)

A MONTH after Health Minister Dr Richard Kamwi officially announced the presence of the deadly extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Namibia, the country has yet to start treating the first eight cases. (AllAfrica)

Nearly 1,200 cases of tuberculosis were detected in Kaduna State in the first quarter of 2008. The patients have however been placed under directly observed short course treatment (DOTS), according to Commissioner for Health. (AllAfrica)

LAST Monday, for the first-time, the Government, public health and business leaders, heads of United Nations agencies and advocates met at the UN headquarters to acknowledge HIV/TB as an urgent priority. (AllAfrica)

The first Forum of Global Leaders for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis has reiterated the need to speed up large scale combination of activities to control both pandemics, given the increasing link between the two in recent years. (AllAfrica)

TB/HIV infection control activities in Uganda are poor or non-existent, a joint research by the International Union against TB and the health ministry has said, reports Barbara Among. (AllAfrica)

THE Global Fund is to launch Round 9 funding for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in October, according to an announcement by the fund made on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

Two of an original four patients with a life-threatening form of tuberculosis who have gone to the Cape High Court with their claim that their detention is inconsistent with the constitution, will have to wait for a final decision. (AllAfrica)

Traditional medicine and home care foundation, an N.G.O based in Brufut Ghana Town, held a day workshop on sensitisation of Malaria and TB prevention, for the communities of Brufut, Tujereng and Ghana town. (AllAfrica)

The Global Health Initiative of the World Economic Forum and the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership today launched a new toolkit that aims to boost the involvement of South African companies in tackling the tuberculosis (TB) crisis. (AllAfrica)

In Kenya, many health workers suffering from TB or HIV/Aids would rather die in silence than share the news of their sickness with fellow employees. (AllAfrica)

Fifteen physicians of the provinces of Huila, Namibe and Cunene attend since Friday a workshop on new strategies for tuberculosis treatment, promoted by the Sinodal Evangelic Church of Angola (IESA). (AllAfrica)

Two weeks after the country reported cases of the virulent drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, Namibia still struggles to procure the much-needed drugs. (AllAfrica)

The public health service in Cunene province registered during the first quarter of this year at least 375 cases of tuberculosis, without deaths, more 28 cases comparing to the previous period. (AllAfrica)

AIDS Service Organisations and other stakeholders in the health sector have called on Government to review its policies on HIV and Aids interventions to integrate Tuberculosis programmes. (AllAfrica)

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