Africa: Investing in New TB Vaccines - It's Time to End the Century-Long Wait!
[WHO] Dear colleagues, partners and friends, (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 26, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Scientists Develop New Method of Diagnosing TB From Skin
[UCT] A team of scientists, including those from the University of Cape Town (UCT), have developed a new diagnostic methodology enabling a non-invasive, fast and highly accurate way of detecting tuberculosis (TB). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 16, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Could Community Health Workers Be the Answer to Reducing Tuberculosis Stigma?
[spotlight] Thandeka* is walking with her backpack through the streets of Khayelitsha. She is an uNompilo - a community health worker. She is describing a typical experience of one of the people she is helping with Tuberculosis (TB). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 16, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Active TB Drug Safety Monitoring and Management (ADSM) Global Database - Outcome of the Assessment and Future of Data Reporting
[WHO] A global database set up by WHO's Global Tuberculosis Programme in collaboration with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) has been collating data on Active TB Drug Safety Monitoring and Management (aDSM) since 2016, to monitor the safety of patients who receive MDR-TB treatment with new medicines (e.g. bedaquiline, delamanid), repurposed medicines (e.g. linezolid, clofazimine) or new regimens, which don't have a well-established safety profile. The aDSM framework has (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 12, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: New WHO Recommendations Issued to Improve Access to Rapid Molecular Tests for the Detection of TB and Drug-Resistant TB
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an update to its consolidated guidelines on the detection of TB and drug-resistant TB. The guidelines are accompanied by an operational handbook to facilitate rapid implementation and roll out of rapid molecular tests by national TB programmes, ministries of health and technical partners. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 12, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Namibia: Living With Pott's Disease
[Namibian] WHILE the world is battling the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, 36-year-old Joseph Haikali is fighting a rare disease that causes his joints and knees to continuously keep swelling. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 7, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lagos Is Nigeria's Tuberculosis Epicentre - Official
[Premium Times] Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of the disease, while it also ranks first in Africa in the number of undetected cases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - July 7, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zim Makes Progress On TB
[The Herald] Health Reporter (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - June 29, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: WHO High-Level Event Galvanizes Commitment and Action to Accelerate the Global Drive to Scale Up TB Prevention
[WHO] On 16 June, WHO convened a high-level event to shine the spotlight on the importance of TB prevention which urgently needs to be ramped up to reduce suffering and save lives from TB - one of the world's top infectious killers. The event, titled "A global drive to scale up TB prevention" comes 18 months before the deadline established by Heads of State at the United Nations High Level Meeting on TB in 2018, to achieve ambitious targets towards ending TB. It is also 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic that (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - June 24, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: TB Still SA's Leading Cause of Death
[SAnews.gov.za] A Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) report has revealed that Tuberculosis remained the main leading cause of death in South Africa between 2016 and 2018. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - June 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Programmatic Innovations to Address Challenges in Tuberculosis Prevention and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme is pleased to share its first report of country case studies on programmatic innovations that are being implemented to overcome challenges in tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care, created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 26, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: We Need to Do for TB Vaccines What We've Done for Covid-19
[spotlight] It is little wonder that some TB vaccine researchers suffer from a rare syndrome that understandably threatens their mental health. Symptoms include frustration, impatience, irritability, seemingly inexplicable rage, and in the least resilient, despair. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 21, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kenya: Dominic Kaunyangi Seeks to Save Meru County From Growing TB Burden
[Nation] Dominic Kaunyangi, a tuberculosis survivor from Mikinduri in Meru, traverses hilly villages every day on one mission: To help stop TB infections in the county. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 21, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Western Cape to Launch Covid-Style Tuberculosis Dashboard
[spotlight] Globally, it is estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic has set back the fight against TB by between five and eight years and could result in an additional 6.3 million people developing TB and an additional 1.4 million deaths between 2020 and 2025. In South Africa, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize last week in Parliament said the department is committed "to find all persons living with active TB in communities". Mkhize said they noted "a 50% reduction in the number of TB tests conducted during the COVID-19 period (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: SA Braces for a Third Wave, Prepares for the Vaccine Roll-Out and Delays a New HIV and TB Plan By Two Years
[Daily Maverick] This week, South Africa waited with bated breath for the vaccine roll-out to begin and for an imminent third wave of Covid-19 infections to break. Meanwhile, a survey reveals most South Africans would take the vaccine if given the chance. And the pandemic delays a new plan for HIV and TB health services by two years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 14, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
