Old Ailment Coming Back To Haunt
TB, an old age ailment is back with vengeance, this time it is more stronger than ever. TDR or XDR TBTags: TBTuberculosisTDR TBXDR TBTB backSection: In FocusNews: Ear, Nose, ThroatRegion:...
View ArticleDiabetes threat looms strongly over TB patients’ says study
The medical study Tags: diabetesPulmonaryTBglucoseTuberculosismedical conditionsDiabetic patientsweaker immunityoral glucose tolerance testSection: SpotlightNews: DiabetesRegion: IndiaArticles: My Health
View ArticleIndoor Air Pollution Not A Public Health Issue in Zimbabwe
“The greatest challenge we face is that people are unaware of the problem, particularly those most vulnerable to it. Moreover, the diseases that women get from the smoke exposure occur only after many...
View ArticleTB, tobacco control, Lung diseases to be in focus at 2012 global meet
More than 3,000 lung health experts and advocates from countries around the world will come together at the 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to discuss the latest...
View ArticlePreventing an epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis in India
In most cases, TB is treatable and curable. However, unlike most common infectious diseases that require a few days of antibiotic treatment, TB requires several antibiotics and long-term treatment for...
View ArticleLung health: Cough is not normal
Lung Week: 12-17 NovemberDo you think lung health diseases deserve to be among issues of public health importance?Tags: LungsTBLung cancerpneumoniacoughpulmonary tuberculosislung healthChronic...
View ArticleCivil Society Call For Urgency In TB Control
They were an outspoken crowd, demanding more ambitious targets for stopping TB, increased funding to meet those targets and an end to the use of impolite and negative language in the TB community.News:...
View ArticleAddressing The Double Burden of TB-Diabetes: Better Late Than Never
Realizing the gravity of the problem, the WHO issued a policy statement his year, on what needs to be done to address TB-diabetes co-infection. The urgent need to address the comorbidity of these two...
View ArticleEmpowered Communities and Accountable Health Systems: Need of the Hour
The recently concluded 43rd Union World Conference On Lung Health re-emphasized the importance of these very pertinent issues. In a country like India, despite well qualified doctors and excellent...
View Article'When a virus (HIV) and a bacteria (TB) can work so well together, why can't...
"Countries where the TB epidemic is driven by HIV, such as Zimbabwe and other southern African countries, it is important that ministries of health adopt the 12 point package of collaborative TB HIV...
View ArticleTuberculosis Control: Are We On Our Way?
During this long stint, spanning over two decades, Dr Billo has been instrumental in helping the Union grow from strength to strength—from a fledging federation to a leading international health...
View ArticleOperational strategy to stop TB despite tight purse strings
That is why perhaps the Stop TB Partnership has come up with an Operational Strategy for next three years (2013-2015) on how to implement the Global Plan to Stop TB by 2015 end with given human and...
View ArticleUnion model leads to successful TB-HIV collaborative care
Over the past nine years, The Union and its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Benin and Zimbabwe have worked with 59 primary health care (PHC) clinics to conduct action research on...
View ArticleTB Is A Social Disease With Medical Consequences
Following are the excerpts from a candid interview given to Citizen News Service - CNS by Dr Krishnan on the occasion of being conferred upon with this honour:The Partnership for TB care and control in...
View ArticleTB: yet another killer of women
“Although the ratio of males to females affected by TB in the pre-puberty and childhood ages is almost equal, this changes significantly in adulthood, and we find almost 4 men per 1 woman affected with...
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