Africa: Covid-19 Pandemic Slows Progress Against Tuberculosis
[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- The COVID-19 pandemic's disruption to health services has seen an increase in tuberculosis deaths in Africa, the first such rise in more than a decade, while the decline in new cases slowed down, an analysis by World Health Organization (WHO) shows. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - December 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malawi: TB Case Fatality Decreases As Global Rate Swells
[MBC] The 2021 World Health Organisation Global Tuberculosis Report has revealed that for the first time in over a decade TB deaths have increased globally because of reduced access to TB diagnosis and treatment in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - December 2, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malawi: Malawi Doing Well in Fight Against TB
[Nyasa Times] The National TB Control Programme has disclosed that Malawi as a nation is doing very well in the fight against Tuberculosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 29, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ghana: Ghana Needs U.S.$25.6 Million to Meet Targets On TB
[Ghanaian Times] Ghana needs approximately $25.6 million to meet the 2022 United Nations High Level Meeting (UNHLM) targets on Tuberculosis (TB) (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria May Report 200,000 Tuberculosis Cases By End of 2021 - Minister
[Premium Times] Nigeria has already surpassed the number of TB cases notified in 2020 by seven per cent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 11, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Gearing Towards a TB Free Nigeria - WHO and Partners Scale Up Action
[WHO-AFRO] The World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its commitment to support the country in eradicating Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killer diseases in the world. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 11, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Five Developments in Paediatric Tuberculosis
[spotlight] The screening, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in children remain far from optimal - and in many respects lag behind what can be done for adults. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 4, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: New Study Shows That Normal Breathing Is a Major Spreader of TB
[The Conversation Africa] Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease transmitted via droplet aerosols. Humans constantly produce aerosols, even during normal breathing. Since Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified as the causative agent of TB, almost 150 years ago, people have assumed that coughing is the main way that infectious aerosols are generated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 1, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Fingerstick Blood Test Shows Promise for TB Screening
[spotlight] The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over four million of the almost ten million people who fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2020 were not diagnosed. One obstacle to more people being diagnosed is the fact that the current gold standard TB tests require people to produce sputum - something children find particularly difficult. Accordingly, researchers have been exploring alternatives such as testing for TB in blood, exhaled breath, stool, and urine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 1, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: How Covid-19 Threatens to Undo Years of Progress in TB Control
[The Conversation Africa] The World Health Organization's (WHO) recently released Global Tuberculosis Report for 2021 paints a dismal picture of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the fight against TB across the globe. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 31, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Quality Tuberculosis Care Starts With People
[spotlight] The world is seeing tuberculosis (TB) deaths increase for the first time in over a decade, according to the World Health Organization's Global TB Report 2021. In 2020, 1.5 million people died of TB and the report estimates that almost 10 million people developed TB. Of these, only 5.8 million people were diagnosed and reported, increasing the gap of people missing TB diagnosis and treatment and risking further spread of the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 25, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: In Sub-Saharan Africa and Elsewhere, We Need to Look Harder for Tuberculosis
[IPS] Johannesburg -- Before COVID-19 came along, tuberculosis (TB) was a primary focus of health authorities in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, approximately 1.4 million people were diagnosed with TB in the region, but epidemiologists estimated that 1 million more had TB but were neither diagnosed nor treated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 24, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malawi: Community Sputum Collection Proves Effective in Fighting TB in Mchinji
[Nyasa Times] The use of volunteers in community sputum collection has proven effective in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) at community level in Mchinji district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 23, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Sound the Alarm - We Are Failing to Meet Targets to Beat TB, but Khayelitsha's Care Model During Covid-19 Shows Exactly How It Should Be Done
[Daily Maverick] During the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health this week, Doctors Without Borders announced the results of TB-PRACTECAL. A total of 89% of patients on the new regimen (which is shorter and less toxic) were cured, compared with 52% in the standard of care group. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 22, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Looking Harder for TB - in Sub-Saharan Africa and Elsewhere
[Premium Times] TB has increased in strength in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions of the Global South. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 22, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
