News about 'TB Prevention and Control Strategies'

29 Nov 2010
New TB/HIV Working Group Report: Priority Research Questions for TB&HIV in HIV-Prevalent and Resource-Limited Settings TB-HIV Report Nov 2010 In November 2008, the Global TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership , in collaboration with the WHO Stop TB and HIV/AIDS departments and the...
25 Nov 2010
The ACSM Subgroup of the Stop TB Partnership released a new guide to country-level best practices for advocacy, communications and social mobilization. > click here to download the report (.pdf – 3,800kb) From the report: ACSM Advocacy Report This document contains good practice examples of...
10 Nov 2010
WHO 2010 TB Control Report 11 November 2010 – The World Health Organizaton today issued its most comprehensive report ever on the progress being made in combating the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. The publication contains the very latest data, and for the first time also includes online profiles from...
12 Oct 2010
Stop TB Partnership Global Plan 2011-2015 Today, at press events in Johannesburg, Berlin and Geneva, the Stop TB Partnership launched The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis . This new action plan, for the first time, identifies all the...
2 Sep 2010
This is part three of our interview, which was recorded on June 9, 2010 at the Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, NJ. > click here to view part one . >click here to view part two Dr. Lee Reichman Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, is the Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical...
25 Aug 2010
This is part two of our interview, which was recorded on June 9, 2010 at the Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, NJ. > click here to view part one . Dr. Lee Reichman Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, is the Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute,...
16 Aug 2010
This post originally appeared on Citizen News Service. Click here to view the post. By Masimba Biriwasha, CNS Art by Beatien Yazz at http://bit.ly/b28RCZ TUBERCULOSIS (TB) has a major impact on women’s sexual reproductive health and that of their children. For pregnant women living in areas with...
29 Jul 2010
This is part one of our interview, which was recorded on June 9, 2010 at the Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, NJ. Dr. Lee Reichman Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, is the Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, and Professor of Medicine,...
22 Jul 2010
Citizen News Service Vienna 2010: PREVENT TB: IPT works, IPT is safe Bobby Ramakant – Citizen News Service (CNS) ******************************************** In Lesotho, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) to prevent latent TB infection from becoming active TB disease, is not available for ordinary...
1 Jul 2010
Published by the WHO here: http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section2097/Section2106_10681.htm An online mini-series on TB and children is viewable here: http://stoptb.citizen-news.org/2010/07/online-discussion-mini-series-tb-and.html Over 250,000 children develop TB and 100,000 children will...
29 Jun 2010
This article originally appeared in the American Journal of Nursing here: http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2010/07000/The_War_on_Tuberculosis.14.aspx Haile Meskel emerges from his Newark, New Jersey, row house and slips into the passenger seat of a shiny, late-model sedan, where a woman...
27 Jun 2010
photo courtesy LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's blog This post originally appeared on the website of LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky: http://zev.lacounty.gov/news/health/future-of-olive-view-tb-ward-in-doubt Los Angeles County is spending more than $16 million to build a dedicated...
17 Jun 2010
Bethesda Sanatorium 1920; Photo by Louis Charles McClure, 1867-1957, www.hellodenver.com/Photos_People.Cfm What do wolf’s liver, the touch of a king and millipede syrup have in common? These were all early treatments for tuberculosis before the advent of the TB hospitals called sanatoriums and then...
4 May 2010
Stop TB Partnership The Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative today announced the recipients of its first wave of grants to organizations that will engage in innovative approaches to increasing detection of tuberculosis (TB). Thirty applicants from 19 countries will together receive US$ 18.4...
3 May 2010
isoniazid structure Over the last month, a few reports about new positive TB cases have surfaced from FL, involving students at a couple of high schools and at a college. Information was not made available as to how the original infected TB individuals contracted TB. Furthermore, it is not clear...

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