News about 'voices'

This report was written by Shobha Shukla of CNS News and appears on their website here . Gerry Elsdon “Bring Tuberculosis Out Of The Dark Into Light…” so said Gerry Elsdon, the very svelte TV broadcaster from South Africa, during the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Global Alliance for TB Drug...

NC001 Today, the TB Alliance announced the first clinical trial to test multiple new TB drugs in combination; the trial is known as New Combination 1 (NC001).The experimental regimen undergoing testing in this trial consists of experimental TB drugs PA-824, Moxifloxacin, and Pyrazinamide, an...

This report was filed by Shaoli Chadhuri, a junior at Duke University. Duke Global Health Institute “When I told my friends about my summer plans, many were surprised to hear that tuberculosis still existed in the US, not to mention, right here in North Carolina,” writes Duke University senior...

This post was contributed by Vivek Dharmaraj of Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION Project) based in Pune, India. The names have been changed for privacy. ACTION Mohini Bai came to our NGO about 8 years back. She had lost her husband to AIDS and both she and her younger son had also...

This podcast was produced by MSF and originates on their website here . Mathare Slum Kids In Mathare, a poor area on the outskirts of Nairobi, MSF treats children with TB, but just diagnosing them is extremely challenging. Results of the lack of research into TB means the main diagnostic tool for...

Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about the types of patients she sees and about the possibility of contracting TB herself. Click here to view part one of this interview series.

Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about her experience working with patients at a local shelter.

In June of this year, the WGND interviewed a patient in New Jersey who was being treated by the DOTS program of the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ. While his point-of-view is by no means universal, it provides an oft-overlooked window into tuberculosis in the United States. USA TB Patient...

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...

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,...

Cameron Kaiser, MD Last week , Dr. Kaiser shared his thoughts and perspectives as a medical doctor on the current state of TB drug regimens. This week he shares specific ideas on how TB drug R&D could be improved. From a clinical perspective, I think there are some less obvious aims to optimize...

Cameron Kaiser, MD Viewpoint by Cameron Kaiser, MD, Medical Consultant for Tuberculosis, Riverside County Department of Public Health, California and guest WGND blogger. Antibiotics are, to the typical patient, always the quick fix. Despite our best attempts to convince them that their viral...

TB Misdiagnosis: Swedish Student Compelled to Take TB Drugs for a Year This is the first in our series “TB Treatment Stories,” where we meet people who have had first-hand experience taking standard tuberculosis drugs, which were developed and approved more than 40 years ago . As the Working Group...

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,...

This story was published on NDTV.com http://origin-netmg.ndtv.com/article/india/the-outcasts-of-tb-tuberculosis-36625 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...