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Drug shortage shows Modi’s TB eradication dream needs more than just ambition
Drug shortage shows Modi’s TB eradication dream needs more than just ambition In 2018, India articulated its noble ambition to eliminate TB by 2025, five years before the global target. But news reports show we aren’t even …
Drug shortage shows Modi’s TB eradication dream needs more than just ambition Original
This goes on to show that it is time for our ambitions to meet appropriate resources and actions. Our treatment choices make things quite challenging for India’s DR-TB patients. Despite the WHO’s advice against it, 22,096 multi-drug/rifampicin-resistant TB patients in 2021were taking treatment that required injectable drugs.
Taking A Rights Based Approach To TB Care To Make India TB Free
Home » Living Healthy » Taking A Rights Based Approach To TB Care To Make India TB Free TB continues to impact the lives of over 28 lakh people, with 4 lakh people succumbing to the disease each year! Lack of awareness about TB, breeds and reinforces stigma and discrimination that acts as barriers to those who need to seek care By: Blessina Kumar Updated: Oct 13, 2020 11:24 IST 4-Min Read 1/5th or 1/6th of the TB patients go undetected and unreported to the TB program The outbreak of...
End stigmatizing language in tuberculosis research and practice
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Protestors demand Cepheid halve the price of GeneXpert TB tests to US$5
The high cost of GeneXpert tests for tuberculosis (TB) leaves open a critical gap in the diagnosis of TB and fails to consider volume of sales and public investments in the development of GeneXpert Hyderabad, India – 1 November 2019 – Activists disrupted a session at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health to demand that the diagnostics corporation Cepheid halve the price of its tuberculosis (TB) tests GeneXpert MTB/RIF and MTB/RIF Ultra to US$5.
Anchored in human rights
Decades of global neglect have resulted in tuberculosis (TB) becoming the leading cause of adult deaths in most of the global south — it kills nearly two million people a year. This is shocking given that TB is curable and preventable.
UN Political Declaration Against TB: Time To Translate Words To Action
UN Political Declaration Against TB: Time To Translate Words To Action It was thus a moment of triumph when the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) called for the first-ever High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB to endorse a political declaration that aims to strengthen action and investments to end tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a devastating disease.
Drug resistant TB and a promising drug
Drug resistant TB cases are growing. We need speedier diagnosis, treatment and care World TB Day commemoration events for 2016 have just concluded. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that Bedaquiline, the first new TB drug in over 40 years, will be now available in India. It had been given accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December 2012.
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