CNS Stop-TB News Monitor provides a snapshot of five major news pieces on tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment, care and support related issues, from around the world, particularly prioritising news highlights from TB high-burdened countries and links to major TB-related events or other advocacy opportunities. This is issue 1274 (18 - 25 July 2011)
1- WHO warns against the use of inaccurate blood tests for active tuberculosis
(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)
The use of currently available commercial blood (serological) tests to diagnose active tuberculosis often leads to misdiagnosis, mistreatment and potential harm to public health, says the World Health Organization (WHO) in a policy recommendation issued earlier this week. Read more
(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)
(Source: IBN Live News, Orissa, India)
Watch these dates!
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
4 - 6 July 2012: 6th Conference of The Union Europe Region, London, United Kingdom
USEFUL LINKS!
To download the 2010 report with new WHO data, Multidrug and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: 2010 Global Report on Surveillance and Response, click here
To download or read the Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015), click here
To download or read The Stop TB Strategy, click here
To subscribe to the global Stop-TB eForum, established by Health and Development Networks (HDN), and now managed by the Stop TB Partnership, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and International HIV/AIDS Alliance, send an email to: join-stop-tb@eforums.healthdev.org
To download or read the Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care (PCTC), click here
To download or read the International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC), click here
Know more about: Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION), AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), TB Action Group (Kenya), TB Alert, TB/HIV Care Association, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), World Care Council, [to feature your organisation, send an email to: bobby@citizen-news.org]
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Produced voluntarily by: CNS Stop-TB Initiative, and Abhinav Bharat Foundation (ABF) - partners of Stop TB Partnership, with technical assistance from CNS News Monitoring Initiative (CNS-NMI)
TB vaccine research is moving forward steadily. In their 2010 annual report, the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) looks back at a scientifically successful year. Researchers within TBVI’s network are progressing towards new, safer and more effective tuberculosis vaccines. However, in order to successfully deliver these live-saving vaccines to the market, both political support and innovative investment are crucial. Read more
3- New TB Vaccines: A Reality In The Next Decade
(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)Often thought to be a disease of the past, tuberculosis still kills around 1.7 million people per year. Worldwide, more than 9 million people become infected every year. Although TB mostly affects poor people in developing countries, it is prevalent in all continents, especially in Asia, Africa and Europe. Read more
4- TB tests done at private clinics ‘not accurate’
(Source: Daily Nation News, Kenya)
One in every two Kenyans going for a tuberculosis test at private clinics is most likely getting false results due to the use of substandard kits. Kenya is among 16 countries which use blood test for TB diagnosis — an option that has long been opposed by the World Health Organisation for its “unacceptable level of wrong results". Read more
5- TB: DOTS Plus programme soon in 11 districts
To take the fight against multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) a notch ahead, the State Government announced that the DOTS Plus programme would be extended to 11 more districts soon. Read more
------------------------------------------------------------Watch these dates!
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
23-25 February 2012: 16th Conference of The Union North America Region, Texas, USA
27-30 March 2012: 27th Conference of The Union Middle-East Region, Cairo, Egypt4 - 6 July 2012: 6th Conference of The Union Europe Region, London, United Kingdom
USEFUL LINKS!
To download the 2010 report with new WHO data, Multidrug and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: 2010 Global Report on Surveillance and Response, click here
To download or read the Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015), click here
To download or read The Stop TB Strategy, click here
To subscribe to the global Stop-TB eForum, established by Health and Development Networks (HDN), and now managed by the Stop TB Partnership, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and International HIV/AIDS Alliance, send an email to: join-stop-tb@eforums.healthdev.org
To download or read the Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care (PCTC), click here
To download or read the International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC), click here
Know more about: Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION), AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), TB Action Group (Kenya), TB Alert, TB/HIV Care Association, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), World Care Council, [to feature your organisation, send an email to: bobby@citizen-news.org]
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Produced voluntarily by: CNS Stop-TB Initiative, and Abhinav Bharat Foundation (ABF) - partners of Stop TB Partnership, with technical assistance from CNS News Monitoring Initiative (CNS-NMI)
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