The following is a transcript of a presentation made by Jigna Rao, who is a person who had TB and who still deals with its consequences, at the Cascades: Improving TB Care Symposium, organised by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Médecins Sans Frontières, Partners In Health, the …
A major shift in the global anti-tuberculosis (TB) strategy was announced at the Stop TB Symposium just prior to the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health this month in Paris. Instead of setting modest targets for incremental improvements in TB control, which has been the norm for the past few decades, the TB community …
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Preliminary results from the first programme to integrate directly observed therapy (DOT) TB treatment with methadone treatment for people who inject heroin in Africa show that it “is feasible and the patients found it quite acceptable despite stigma-related to TB/HIV treatments,” said Dr Robert Bruce of Yale University, speaking during the TB-HIV Late Breaker Session …
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“The sensitivity of the [Xpert MTB/Rif TB test] was very high when used for intensified case finding under programmatic conditions in Botswana,” according to Dr. Tefera Agizew, TB-HIV researcher for the Botswana-USA Partnership (BOTUSA), speaking at the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health held from October 31 to November 4th in Paris.[1] While South …
The two key HIV-TB issues explored on Sunday involved Human Rights issues related to TB, and treatment and prevention of TB in pregnant women, children and adolescents living with HIV. Programme in Kenya reports very high rates of treatment completion of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) are possible in children living with HIV and plans to …
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Using mathematical modelling to optimise TB control in high-HIV prevalence settings The TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (www.tb-mac.org), was launched in 2012 in order to coordinate modelling with TB research activities. A symposium on Saturday morning at the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health was dedicated to explaining the value of modelling to help …
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CREATE’s Legacy Early Friday morning, a symposium reviewed the accomplishments of the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE) — which was established to conduct research to explore ways to reduce TB in areas with a high burden of HIV. The studies devised by CREATE enrolled over 1 million individuals, and contributed to …
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Dr Katherine Floyd, of WHO’s Global TB Programme, reviewed the findings of the Global Report and importantly, where the gaps are As noted in a previous post, the Global Report listed 5 priorities to accelerate and/or move beyond the 2015 TB targets: 1. Reach the ‘missed cases’ 2. Address MDR-TB as a public health crisis …
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be publishing some of the selected highlights of the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris and some of meeting’s satellite symposia — beginning with the Stop TB Symposium: Accelerating impact: the transformative role of research to end tuberculosis, held on Wednesday 30 October, 2013. A more …
In the run up to the Union Conference, WHO’s Global TB Programme released the Global TB Report 2013 showing the sort of incremental improvements in TB control to which the TB world has become all too accustomed. The report plots out the progress made towards 2015 global TB-related targets set within the context of the …
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