South Africa: In-Depth - Landmark Moment As Ai Beats Humans in Reading X-Rays for TB
[spotlight] In 1997, the then reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a six-game series to a chess-playing computer programme called Deep Blue. Deep Blue's victory was seen as emblematic of the growing power of computers to do things once thought primarily the domain of human brains. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 21, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: MSF TB-PRACTECAL Clinical Trial Finds Short, Effective and Safe Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment
[MSF] TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) than the current accepted standard of care. These results signal the start of a new chapter for people with drug-resistant (DR)-TB who currently face lengthy treatment regimens of up to 20 months that can include painful injections and up to 20 pills a day that can cause severe side-effects. These grue (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: TB Trial Finds Short, Effective and Safe Drug-Resistant Treatment
[MSF] TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) than the currently accepted standard of care. These results signal the start of a new chapter for people with drug-resistant (DR)-TB who currently face lengthy treatment regimens of up to 20 months that can include painful injections and up to 20 pills a day that can cause severe side-effects. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Patients Across Four Continents Enrol in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Trial
[MSF] Hundreds of patient volunteers from four continents have enrolled in a trial that aims to find safer, shorter, and effective treatments for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), an airborne, infectious disease that has grown resistant to standard medications. A group of scientists and clinicians led by M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Partners In Health (PIH) and Interactive Research and Development (IRD) make up the endTB consortium conducting the groundbreaking study funded by Unitaid. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 19, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: MSF Warns of Deadly TB Testing Gap Following Release of WHO Global TB Report 2021
[MSF] The World Health Organization (WHO) released today the 2021 edition of its Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report, featuring data on TB trends and responses in 197 countries and areas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Stop TB Partnership Concerned Over WHO Global TB Report Findings
[Stop TB Partnership] The Stop TB Partnership notes with concern the data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, which features data on disease trends and the response to the epidemic from over 200 countries and areas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Tuberculosis Deaths Rise for the First Time in More Than a Decade
[WHO] The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis and for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased, according to the World Health Organization's 2021 Global TB report. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Sets Up an Advisory Group On TB Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening
[WHO] The World Health Organization has established a new technical advisory group that will advise on TB diagnostic tools and strategies, and complement the WHO guideline development process. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Progress and Multisectoral Action Towards Achieving Global Targets to End TB
[WHO] Hundreds of people virtually joined the official UN General Assembly high level side-event: "Progress and Multisectoral Action towards achieving global targets to end TB" co-organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Russian Federation on 24 September 2021. Held on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the event brought together a distinguished line up of speakers including WHO and UN Leadership, the President of the UN General Assembly, Health Ministers and nat (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Liberia: 'Killing More Than 4,000 People Per Day, TB Still Not a Priority'
[Observer] The leading international Tuberculosis Advocacy group, 'Stop TB Partnership', has released new data which show how the COVID-19 pandemic has dismally lowered levels of funding and created barriers to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ending TB by 2030. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - October 2, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Liberia: Covid-19 Combined With Funding Shortfalls Are Devastating Efforts to End Tuberculosis (TB) By 2030 - New Data Shows
[New Dawn] Less than half of required funding has been provided globally with dramatic consequences as hundreds of thousands more die from TB (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 29, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Western Cape Launches Public Facing TB Dashboard to Help Monitor TB Responses
[Govt of SA] Western Cape Government launches first-of-a-kind public facing TB dashboard to help monitor the province's TB response (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Uganda: Why TB Goes Undiagnosed
[Independent (Kampala)] Early diagnosis is crucial for the effective management of any disease. In Africa, this is not always possible which affects the ability of countries to bring diseases under control. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Vitamin D Deficiency Does Not Increase TB Risk in Young Children
[UCT] Low Vitamin D levels have been hypothesised by some experts to be a risk factor for tuberculosis (TB). People who develop TB often present with low Vitamin D levels when they are diagnosed. However, whether Vitamin D levels at one point predispose a child to developing TB is debated and not clear. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Eritrea: Green Light Committee Monitoring Mission 2021
[WHO-AFRO] The Green Light Committee (GLC) Initiative, together with the Working Group on MDR-TB, promotes implementation of the component two of the Stop TB Strategy that calls for the control and prevention of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) through: (i) increased access to quality-assured second-line anti-TB drugs; and (ii) prevention of development of resistance to anti-TB drugs in accordance with the Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015) and the Global MDR/XDR-TB Response plan (2007-2008). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - September 14, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
