Africa: WHO World TB Day Message - Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director, WHO Global TB Programme
[WHO] Dear friends, colleagues and partners (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: World Tuberculosis Day - Who Ramps Up Initiative to Combat Killer Disease
[Africa Renewal] For the first time in more than a decade, the number of people dying from tuberculosis (TB) rose last year due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts and other crises, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Stigma Remains a Barrier in the Fight Against TB
[SAnews.gov.za] Stigma and discrimination remain barriers that limit access to tuberculosis (TB) screening, treatment and care - compromising the lives of people who are infected and affected by the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 25, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Africa CDC and KNCV TB Plus Sign MoU to Promote Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis
[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and The Hague, The Netherla -- March 23, 2023 - As the world commemorates World Tuberculosis Day tomorrow, with the theme "Yes! We Can End TB" concerted efforts are under way to eradicate the disease which affects one-quarter of the world's population. The African Union (AU), through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and the KNCV TB Plus (KNCV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at establishing a cooperation framework to support their shared goals to promote prevention and control of (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 24, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: TB Kills 75,000 Children in Africa Every Year - How This Can Stop #WorldTBDay
[The Conversation Africa] Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. Half of the world's 30 highest TB burden countries are in Africa. In many of these countries, TB is the leading cause of death across age groups, but especially among children. Globally, TB is the leading cause of death by any single infectious agent (above COVID-19 and HIV). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 24, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Yes! We Can End TB in South Africa
[spotlight] Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient but curable disease, kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease. Despite decades of global efforts to fight TB, more than 1.6 million people die from TB annually, and the rate of decline in new infections is too slow to place the world on the path to ending the epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the World TB Day Online Talk - 22 March 2023
[WHO] Your Excellency Ambassador Chen Xu, (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: TB in Children Isn't Being Controlled - It's Key to Fighting the Disease for Everyone Else
[The Conversation Africa] World TB Day on March 24th will commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Why Gender Transformative Leadership Is Key to Ending TB - for Good
[IPS] Lusaka / Pune -- Despite being both curable and preventable, the TB pandemic is a global health crisis and a leading cause of death worldwide. COVID-19 brought into sharp focus how women bear the brunt of pandemics. In 2021, over three million women and girls fell ill with TB, resulting in 450,000 needless deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Supply Issues Delaying Wider Rollout of Shorter TB Preventive Therapy
[spotlight] Though estimates vary substantially, it is thought that in the region of 300 000 people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa every year. Many more people, however, have TB bacteria in their lungs and do not fall ill - something referred to as latent TB infection. It is estimated that only around 5% to 15% of adults with latent TB infection go on to develop active TB disease - mostly within months of inhaling the TB bacteria, sometimes only years later. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Community Care Model Improves Uptake of TB Preventive Therapy, Study Finds
[spotlight] The uptake and continuation of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy were much higher when it was provided through a community-based model compared to the standard clinic-based model, a study conducted in KwaZulu-Natal found. The findings were presented at the recent Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, USA. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Moves to Strengthen Collaboration in Fight Against Tuberculosis (TB)
[263Chat] Tuberculosis (TB) is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Globally, 10.6 million people developed TB while an estimated 1.6 million people died of TB in 2021 alone. Despite progress made in the last two decades, the incidence of TB is not declining fast enough to end the disease. In Zimbabwe an estimated 29,945 people developed active TB in 2021 and only 16,541 were diagnosed and put on treatment. A significant number of people are still being missed and not getting the treat (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - February 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malawi: Malawi Moving Towards Reduction of TB Incidences By 2030
[Nyasa Times] National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Elimination Program (NTLEP) Manager, James Mpunga, has disclosed that Malawi is on the right course towards achieving the reduction of the incidences of tuberculosis by over 90 percent by 2030. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - February 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: This Is Why Mpumalanga Is Repurposing Some TB Hospitals
[spotlight] The Mpumalanga Health Department plans to repurpose three of its five tuberculosis (TB) hospitals due to dwindling numbers of in-patients at these hospitals. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - January 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: As With Covid-19, the Effects of TB Can Linger Long After It Is Cured
[spotlight] According to the World Health Organization, of the roughly 10 million people who fall ill with TB annually, over 80% survive, in most cases due to a six-month treatment course. Unfortunately, as with long COVID, being cured is not always the last hurdle and many people go on to struggle with post-TB lung disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - January 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
