Global leaders urged to take action and save an additional million lives
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Advocates urged global leaders to act in response to new scientific modeling released today by the Stop TB Partnership, showing that between 2011 and 2015 it is feasible to avert over one million deaths caused by a dual infection of HIV and tuberculosis (TB). The modeling was released on the eve of the United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York City.
TB vaccines: getting them out of the lab
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There are already 11 vaccines in clinical trials whose progress has slowed or stalled because the funding has dried up.
That is why the Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), an independent organisation that promotes the development of TB vaccines, is launching a new funding model today.
Face Masks Can Help Cut TB Transmission
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Simple face masks worn by patients infected with tuberculosis may significantly reduce the transmission rates to non-infected patients, suggests study.
Private sector TB treatment in Asia: a lot of it, but often sub-optimal
http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1789145/
Although tuberculosis treatment is largely provided through the public sector in the majority of countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), the coexistence of public and private medical sectors in many Asian countries has led to large-scale dispensing of medicines with very loose regulation.
Australian experts fear clinic closure will fuel TB threat
The chairman of the Torres Straight Regional Authority in far north Queensland says the decision to close down the region's tuberculosis (TB) clinics could put Australians at risk.
Venezuelan prisoners hold 22 officials hostage to protest against TB outbreak
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Troops in Venezuela surrounded a jail where inmates were holding 22 hostages, including the prison director, to protest against an alleged tuberculosis outbreak.
Pakistan ranks 6th among high burden TB affected countries
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Pakistan ranks sixth among the 22 high tuberculosis affected countries, and has 43 per cent share of its patients in the Eastern-Mediterranean region of World Health Organization (WHO).According to available data, the incidence of TB per 100,000 population in Pakistan is 181, case notification per 100,000 per year is 150 while the treatment success rate is 85 per cent.An estimated one-third of the world's population is currently infected with TB. The WHO is working on a plan to reduce TB prevalence rate and deaths by half by 2015.
‘TB disclosure cost me my job’
http://www.timeslive.co.za
A 45-year-old Durban man has hauled an eThekwini municipal nurse to the Equality Court for costing him his job by allegedly disclosing that he had tuberculosis.
United Kingdom TB Screening Misses 70% of Latent Cases in Immigrants
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The Lancet published a study that showed 1/5 of new immigrants to the United Kingdom from the Indian subcontinent carried latent TB, along with 1/3 of the immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
Right now, the UK screens people entering their country for TB if they come from places with a TB incidence of more than 40 per 100,000, but it only checks for the latent version of the disease in a division of these individuals.
