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(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 future. Despite significant progress and greater understanding of the challenges faced in addressing TB...
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 determinants of TB, including poverty and food security, make it even more pertinent to adopt a multisectoral a...
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 and communities. Leprosy can cause permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes if left unt...