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Dr. Chukwuma Anyaike, National Coordinator, NTBLCP, made this known while speaking on activities lined up for the World Tuberculosis Day 2023 with the theme: “Yes! We can end TB.”

Two new evidence-based algorithms for diagnosing pediatric tuberculosis developed by a Yale-led international team could improve TB diagnosis around the globe.

<p>The World Health Organization has released a communication on a guide for treating drug-resistance tuberculosis.</p>

Stakeholders in health have expressed concern about the gaps in integrated healthcare and called for urgent action to integrate non-communicable disease services into Established Disease-Specific Programmes and the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). They said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic for people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and it is…

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, WHO has also called for increased funding to improve gaps in TB prevention and care exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Formative Content Deaths from tuberculosis (TB) have risen for the first time in a decade, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The World Health Organization estimates the number of people developing TB and dying…

The Covid-19 pandemic may have reversed the gains in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment, including in the Philippines, which is one of the highest TB burden countries in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In its Global Tuberculosis Report 2021, the WHO TB treatment in countries like…

Date Time Development of updated WHO guidelines on management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening a Guideline Development Group (GDG) to advise on updates needed to its recommendations on the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents. At least 1.2 million children under the age of 15 years fall ill with TB every year and an estimated 67 million are infected with TB and thus are at risk of developing TB disease in the fut...

Date Time WHO Director-General and Civil Society Task Force on TB WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held a virtual session with the members of the WHO Civil Society Task Force on Tuberculosis (CSTF-TB) in April 2021, focused on addressing the alarming global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the TB response. The meeting highlighted the need for urgent restoration of essential TB services.The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on access to TB services and on the determinant...

Content provided by Last updated: 11/03 - 13:50 In Kwa Bada village in north-eastern Tanzania, community health volunteer Sylvia Petro is hunting an ancient, endemic disease and shining a light on the devastating stigma that surrounds it. Leprosy has long plagued humanity yet has been treatable for decades by multidrug therapy. Described in the literature of ancient civilizations, sufferers are often shunned by fearful families...