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Get Ready for World TB Day March 24, 2013!
World TB Day is celebrated on March 24 and there is a lot going on during this week and next to highlight the continued problem of TB in the world and the solutions to address the problem. Included is a list of publications, news items, events, and links related to TB and World TB Day 2013.
Posted in Faces of TB, TB R&D Spotlight Interviews, Video, Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis
Integrating TB and HIV Services at the Community Level
This week we highlight an interview with Jeannine Uwimana, a public health specialist from the University of the Western Cape and TB/HIV Care Association in South Africa. She discusses her work in developing models for community-based programs to enhance TB and HIV collaborative activities.
Posted in Announcements, Events, TB Stigma, Voices from the Fight to Stop Tuberculosis
David Rochkind and the Pulitzer Center Capturing the Human Faces behind TB
On World TB Day March 24, there will be a Congressional Briefing on multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) where David Rochkind, the award winning photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee, will present his reporting and photography on his exploration into the MDR-TB crisis in Moldova.
Women TB Patients Face Bias and Violence
Eight months into her marriage, Rose Joseph (21, name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in January. Joseph was hospitalised for a week but when she was discharged, her husband asked her to stay at her parents’ place in Malad, saying he and his family had to travel for a wedding. For two weeks, her husband did not call to check on her. When her mother took her to her husband’s home, her mother-in-law said they didn’t want her in the house because she had TB. “My husband wasn’t even ready to face me. My mattress, bedsheets and other belongings had been burned,” said Joseph.
The Outcasts of Tuberculosis
It may be curable but Tuberculosis (TB) remains a stigma in our country especially for women. Over a lakh Indian women are thrown out of their homes each year because they have TB. NDTV brings you the story of a woman who was deserted by her husband one year after marriage because she was diagnosed with TB. The 21-year-old woman’s only fault was that she was infected with tuberculosis.
Interview with Stewart Cole
Stewart Cole helped create the Global Health Institute in 2007. Located at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), will use cutting-edge techniques to seek solutions to tuberculosis, a growing threat worldwide. Dr Cole’s work on tuberculosis, leprosy, AIDS, gas gangrene and bacterial molecular genetics is widely acclaimed throughout the world. He was a leading [...]
Financial Times Video Interviews on Combating TB
For World TB Day, the Financial Times’ Andrew Jack interviewed various members of the TB community to get their take on a range of topics. Interviewees are Paul Stoffels, head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson; Lucy Cheshire, a Kenyan campaigner; Paul Sommerfeld, chairman of TB Alert; Al Story, the clinical lead of a UK charity.
MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru
Video: Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What’s worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.
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Toppix TB News- TB, a neglected disease in Uganda 15 May 2013
- Dr. John: Medications, T.B, tinnitus 8 May 2013
- U.S. non-profit group to build tuberculosis center in Pyongyang 4 May 2013
- Predictors of tuberculosis (TB) and antiretroviral (ARV) medication... 26 Apr 2013
- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): an interview with Dr.... 26 Apr 2013
