CNS Stop-Tuberculosis (TB) Initiative

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 2 - 8 September 2011

2011-09-09T15:09:00.000+05:30

1- Living With HIV And Dying Of TB

(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)

Fuelled by the HIV pandemic and the spread of drug-resistant strains, tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major threat to global health. TB is a curable disease that continues to affect millions of people globally each year, and is a leading cause of death in HIV positive people. Read more

2- WHO, international pharma body tie up to tackle tuberculosis

(Source: The Hindu Business Line, Hyderabad, India)

The World Health Organisation, in a landmark initiative to curb the current tuberculosis epidemic, has signed up with The International Pharmaceutical Federation on the role of pharmacists in tuberculosis care and control. Read more

3- Tuberculosis relative could be new vaccine

(Source: BBC News, UK)

Experiments on mice showed the injections could completely eliminate tuberculosis bacteria in some cases, Nature Medicine reports. Read more

4- Orissa Health secretary inaugurates Virology Lab, Tb Culture Facility in RMRC

(Source: Orissa Dairy, Orissa, India)

Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) a premier institute of ICMR, Dept. of Health Research, Govt. of India has established two new advance laboratories; i) Grade -I virology and ii) T.B culture and Drug Sensitivity Testing lab in its main building at Bhubaneswar. On the eve of centenary year celebration (1911-2011) of the Council (ICMR), the opening ceremony of these labs was held at RMRC Auditorium. Read more

5- 90-minute TB test not a game changer for India

(Source: Indo Asian News Service, News Delhi, India)

A new diagnostic technique that detects tuberculosis in 90 minutes instead of three months using the conventional method may not be effective in India as the heat and humidity would affect the equipment, experts said. Read more

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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, Egypt
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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 18- 25 July 2011

2011-07-25T10:51:00.000+05:30

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

2- New TB Vaccines: A matter of political will

(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)

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

(Source: IBN Live News, Orissa, India)

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

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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

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 29 June - 5 July 2011

2011-07-06T11:57:00.000+05:30

1- [Publications] Access,Accountability and Rights: Your Voices,Your Views on the Global Fund

(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)

As part of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) Partnership Forum consultations, nine Key Correspondents (KCs) from seven countries captured voices from the field in local contexts and produced articles and videos on specific themes. Read more

2- [Publications] 2011 Global Fund Partnership Forum e-Consultations: Adding Your Voice to the Global Fund's 2012-2016 Strategy
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) supported a consultative process through online thematic consultations, survey and in-country interviews among other mechanisms, in lead up to the Partnership Forum 2011. Read more

3- Pakistan ranks 6th among high TB burden countries
(Source: Pak Observer, Pakistan)
Pakistan ranks 6th globally among the 22 high tuberculosis burden countries, and contributes 43% of the disease towards the Eastern-Mediterranean region of World Health Organization (WHO). According to available data, the incidence of TB per 100,000 population in Pakistan is 181, case notification per 100,000 per year is 150 while the treatment success rate is 85%. Read more

4- Tijuana’s Success In Tuberculosis Treatment Benefits San Diego

(Source: KPBS News, Mexico)
Tijuana’s state-of-the-art lab opened in 2006, with funding from the Mexican government as well as $400,000 from USAID for construction and testing equipment. Today, Tijuana has the most success in the treatment of drug-resistant TB in Mexico, seeing an average of 700 new cases a year. Read more

5- UAB professor taking lead in global effort against drug-resistant TB, HIV

(Source: UAB News, Africa)
In the African nation where the first extensively drug-resistant case of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was found a few years ago, the doors soon will open on a new TB research facility. University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., is the first scientist recruited to work at the facility. Steyn, associate professor in the UAB Department of Microbiology, is the first investigator for the new KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) in Durban, South Africa, a collaboration between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Read more
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Watch these dates!
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
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, Egypt
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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 22 - 28 June 2011

2011-06-30T10:49:00.001+05:30

1- New TB Vaccine Passes Safety Tests

(Source: Voice of America, America)

Tuberculosis continues to be a major threat around the world, especially in developing countries. A new vaccine has gone into testing, and the results may change how childhood vaccinations are given. Read more

2- Rising Drug Resistance Worries Doctors
(Source: All Africa News, Nairobi, Africa)
The World Health Organisation has warned that if anti-microbial resistance is not halted, many infectious diseases -- like TB, pneumonia and HIV/Aids -- risk becoming uncontrollable. This could derail the progress already made by East Africa towards achieving the health related Millennium Development Goals. Read more

3- Sanofi Signs R&D Contract On Treating Tuberculosis
(Source: The Wall Street Journal, USA)
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi SA (SAN.FR) said it signed into a research collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College to identify new medicines that aim to shorten the course of treatment of tuberculosis and could provide effective therapies against drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. Read more

4- Scientists come up with new molecule that may lead to better drug for TB

(Source: The Hindu, Tamil Nadu, India)
Scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have hit upon a new molecule with anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties that could potentially lead to a better drug for the treatment of TB and common HIV sub-types. Read more

5- Hostels for MDR-TB patients ready

(Source: Republica News, Kathmandu, Nepal)
In an attempt to prevent multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from spreading, the government is all prepared to keep the patients in hostels. Read more
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Watch these dates!
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
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, Egypt
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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 16 - 21 June 2011

2011-06-21T09:46:00.001+05:30

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 1271 (16 - 21 June 2011)

1- Coordination is the key: CCM partnerships in India
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) should strengthen national partnerships on specific issues and their coordination with Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs). This is not only to optimise programme performance, but also ensure that community voices are central to health responses. Read more

2- Meeting the MDG targets for TB eradication in Zimbabwe: Global Fund money is vital
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in Zimbabwe. As of 2011, the country ranks 20th out of 22 on the list of high-burden TB countries. In 2008, Zimbabwe had an estimated 73,714 new TB cases, and an incidence of 557 per 100,000 people. To aid the national TB response in Zimbabwe, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) supports a number of programmes. Read more

3- Simplify and build local competencies to manage Global Fund grants: a view from India
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand) The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (the Global Fund) has contributed significantly over the last decade in accelerating India‟s response to TB, HIV and malaria, saving lives and preventing infections. However a lot more needs to be done as it is clearly not enough. If the Global Fund and India do business as usual, currently unreached populations are unlikely to benefit."Over the last ten years the Global Fund has focussed on strengthening the national programmes in India", according to Dr Nevin Wilson, Director, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South East Asia office, New Delhi. Read more

4- The Global Fund should support operational research to reach the unreached
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Since its inception in 2001, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (The Global Fund) has saved approximately 5.7 million lives. Each day an additional 4000 deaths are averted, but in order to continue its existing programmes and rapidly scale up towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, The Global Fund needs to invest resources in operational or applied research to confirm where it gets most value for its dollar, measured in terms of protecting human rights, saving lives and preventing infections. Read more

5- Infertility problem could be because of tuberculosis
(Source: Daily News and Analysis, Bangalore, Karnataka)
Doctors say that nearly 90% of women with genital tuberculosis (GTB) are diagnosed in the 15-40 years age range. Infertility on account of GTB is 40-80%. Twoout of 10 women suffering from TB cannot bear children, but experts say that with advanced medical treatment now available, if the diagnosis is early enough, GTB can be treated and the woman can regain fertility. Read more
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Watch these dates!

21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 9 - 15 June 2011

2011-06-14T17:26:00.003+05:30

If your driver, cook or maid is coughing repeatedly, do not take it casually. He or she might be carrying multiple drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB), thus exposing you to the risk of an infection that is on the rise in city. Read more

2- A TB centre in Ojha that doesn’t believe in just treating the illness
(Source: The Express Tribune, Karachi, Pakistan)
There are an estimated 17,000 people in Pakistan who suffer from Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB). About 3,000 of them live in Sindh. MDR shows up in patients with TB who are not treated properly. Right now, Pakistan bears 55 per cent of the TB burden in the Eastern Mediterranean region and ranks eighth highest in the world. This makes TB a major public health problem. Read more

3- Manipur first in region to test multi drug-resistant tuberculosis
(Source: The Telegraph, West Bengal, India)
Manipur will have the first centre in the Northeast to treat multi drug-resistant TB, with one of the four national reference centres assuring the state’s intermediate reference laboratory of accreditation, in order to function as a national reference laboratory. A team from Delhi’s Lala Ram Swarup Hospital, one of the four national reference laboratories of the country for testing multi drug-resistant TB, visited the state’s intermediate reference laboratory at the medical department’s research and development wing at Lamphelpat of Imphal West last month. Read more

4- Closures will increase TB threat to Aust
(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia)
Closing tuberculosis clinics in the Torres Strait will see the disease re-establish itself in mainland Australia, a tropical health expert warns. The Queensland government will close TB clinics in the Torres Strait at the end of the month. Read more

5- Scientists Launch Vaccine Research Foundation
(Source: PR Wire News, USA)
Fourteen leading scientists and advocacy experts in vaccines and infectious diseases have announced the formation of a new international Foundation to advance and accelerate vaccine research and development against infectious diseases. Read more
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Watch these dates!

21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 31 May - 6 June 2011

2011-06-08T15:40:00.002+05:30

1- Reduce AIDS deaths by preventing and treating tuberculosis (TB): Study

(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
A new study further builds upon the body of evidence that it is possible to save lives of people living with HIV (PLHIV) if we prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB). Read more

2- Online TB diagnosis picking up: study
(Source: The Dawn News, Pakistan)
A study conducted in the peri-urban and rural areas of Sindh has shown that an online diagnosis of difficult tuberculosis (TB) cases is as accurate as face-to-face diagnosis. The online diagnosis of TB is one of the first few e-health initiatives in Pakistan that faces grave challenges in the fight against tuberculosis, though a national TB control programme has been in place in the country for over 15 years. Read more

3- Refugees Can Be Effectively Treated To Prevent Tuberculo
(Source: Medical News Today, Australia)
Almost one in three recently arrived refugees in Darwin tested positive for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), research published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia has found. Researchers from the Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory (CDC-NT) found that of 458 refugees screened between 1 February 2006 and 31 January 2009, 146 (31.9 per cent) were diagnosed with LTBI. LTBI implies past exposure to tuberculosis, leaving the individual susceptible to active infection later in life if not treated. Read more

4- Involving industry in the fight against TB
(Source: Express Pharma Online News, India)
A new report shows that the private tuberculosis (TB) drug market is now as large as the public market. Given that the private market has irregular practices that could be driving treatment failures and the emergence of drug-resistant TB, it is imperative that policy makers expand Public-Private Mix (PPM) programmes. Read more

5- Farmers at risk of contracting tuberculosis
(Source: Viet Nam News, Viet Nam)
According to the National Committee for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, 76 per cent of tuberculosis patients in Viet Nam are farmers. A recent survey showed that people living in rural and densely populated areas were most at risk of contracting the disease. Read more
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Watch these dates!

21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 24-30 May 2011

2011-06-01T09:17:00.022+05:30

Treatment poses major challenges, particularly with the development of drug-resistant strains of TB. The government spends less on a patient treating ordinary TB than treating drug-resistant strains. Read more

3- Pak ranks 6th among high TB risk countries
(Source: The Pak Observer, Pakistan)
According to health experts, TB is an infectious bacterial disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. He added the disease is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease. Read more

4- Zimbabwe Struggles to Slow Mounting Incidence of Deadly Tuberculosis
(Source: VOA News, USA)
He said Zimbabwe is not yet diagnosing or treating drug-resistant tuberculosis as other countries in the region are doing for lack of the medical testing equipment needed to detect strains of tuberculosis that resist standard treatments. Read more

5- Diabetics have up to 5 times higher risk of developing tuberculosis
(Source: Daily News & Analysis (DNA), India)
This research confirms results from several other studies showing an increased risk of TB in people with diabetes and means that it is important that clinicians actively seek to diagnose diabetes in people with TB, and vice versa,” said Knut Lonnroth, medical officer in the Stop TB Department at the World Health Organisation. Read more
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Watch these dates!

21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 17-23 May 2011

2011-05-23T13:53:00.019+05:30

"Stigma is a major challenge in TB as well", said Anandi Yuvaraj. Dr Sachdeva from RNTCP said that stigma is a major issue especially among women. RNTCP study shows that stigma related to TB was reduced from 37% to 32%. Anandi Yuvaraj asked what were the indicators used to measure stigma reduction?. Read more

3- Drug stock-outs in India's AIDS programme
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
“Last month TB drugs were not available at the DOTS centres in Delhi. Now PLHIV networks report that there are ARV drug supply interruptions in several states”, said Vikas Ahuja of Delhi Network of Positive People. “They are risking the lives of PLHIVs. Drug stock-outs at facility level may lead to HIV and TB drug resistance, which means that their treatment may stop working for them”, he adds. Read more

4- Moving beyond curative approaches
(Source: The Hindu, India)
Situating the prevention of tuberculosis within curative services is unlikely to lead to a reduction in the overall burden of the disease. Additional public health approaches are called for. Read more

5- Drug Misuse Blamed For TB Treatment Failures & Drug Resistance
(Source: Star Global Tribune, USA)
Tuberculosis (TB) is widely considered a public health concern and its treatment a public sector responsibility. But according to a study published today in the journal PLoS ONE, the private sector for TB treatment is ignored at our peril. Read more
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Watch these dates!

31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 10-16 May 2011

2011-05-16T15:00:00.030+05:30

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 1168 (10-16 May 2011)

1-TBVI partner Peter Andersen receives prestigious scientific prize
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the world's biggest killing diseases. The disease causes almost 2 million deaths per year. The increased mobility of the world’s population, with more people travelling across borders, intensifies the spread of tuberculosis. If not treated, each person with active TB infects on average 10 to 15 people every year. The disease mostly affects young adults in their most productive years. Read more

2- Tuberculosis no longer a 'poor man's disease'
(Source: The Times of India, India)
The 'poor man's disease' tuberculosis remains one of the biggest fatal diseases in India's richest city, accounting for nearly 15% of the deaths caused by the top 10 killer illnesses last year. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) says that 8,953 people died of TB in 2010, a considerable drop from the previous year's 9,611. It was followed in the 2010 fatal diseases list by cancer and pneumonia that claimed 5,360 and 4,666 lives, respectively. Read more

3- Treatment delay among tuberculosis patients in Tanzania: Data from the FIDELIS Initiative
(Source: 7th Space Interactive News, USA)
Several FIDELIS projects (Fund for Innovative DOTS Expansion through Local Initiatives to Stop TB) in Tanzania were conducted by the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) during the years 2004-2008 to strengthen diagnostic and treatment services. These projects collected information on treatment delay and some of it was available for research purposes. Read more

4- Health workers deployed by BJMP to aid in curing TB
(Source: OFW News, Philippines)
Director Chief Superintendent for BJMP-National Capital Region, Benito Dorigo announced that the action is a part of their efforts to help contain, prevent and cure TB within the jails. Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death among inmates in the Philippine jails according to records, next only to cardio-repiratory arrest. Read more

5- Men more susceptible to TB than women
(Source: The Korea Times, Korea)
Men are more susceptible to tuberculosis than women, a report said. The National Health Insurance (NHI) said there were more male patients than females suffering from tuberculosis in 2009, with 680 male and 588 female patients per 100,000 reported to receive medical treatment. It added the total number of patients with the disease has been decreasing — 330,383 in 2009, 342,891 in 2008 and 345,226 in 2007. The older people are, the more susceptible they are to tuberculosis, but income status has no influence on susceptibility, the NHI said. Read more
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Watch these dates!

31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 3 - 9 May 2011

2011-05-11T11:57:00.030+05:30

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 1113 (3 - 9 May 2011).

1- TB is killing women silently
(Source: The Hindu, India)
It is not widely known that tuberculosis is the third major killer of women aged 15-44 years, accounting for approximately 700,000 deaths a year globally and causing illness in millions more. TB is more common during and immediately after pregnancy, possibly due to the changes in immunity that occur during that time. Read more

2- Survey points to TB pill violation- 60% prescriptions do not follow dosage rules, says study
(Source: The Telegraph, India)
Nearly 60 per cent of tuberculosis medication dose strengths sold in India through prescriptions of private practitioners do not conform with standard TB treatment guidelines, a study has revealed. The findings corroborate suggestions made by some Indian doctors — several times over the past two decades — that a majority of private practitioners do not write correct prescriptions for treating TB. Read more

3- Diabetics at 'higher risk of TB infection'
(Source: Trade Arabia News, Bahrain)
People with diabetes face a much higher risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) than non-diabetics, according to results of a study published in the May issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. The study, done in medically-underserved communities on both sides of the border of Mexico and the USA, found that people with diabetes face three to five times the risk of contracting TB than non-diabetics living in the same settings. Read more

4- Make Private TB Drug Markets Responsible Partners Of The Public Sector
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
TB treatment requires multi drug regimens for at least 6 months or more. This type of consistent and supervised treatment, to maximize cure rates and minimize the development of drug resistance, was thought to be more achievable in the public sector, especially in low-income settings this. This was the driving force behind the much publicized DOTS programme, which in India is being currently run as the RNCTP (Revised National TB Control Programme). Read more

5- 1/3rd pvt sector TB drugs outside treatment recommendations: Study
(Source: The Economic Times, India)
"Across the 10 high tuberculosis burdened countries including India, it has been found that there is as much TB drug volume in the private sector as in the public sector and at least one third of all private sector dosages of first-line TB drugs fall outside national and international treatment recommendations," it said. "Any resulting drug misuse could be responsible for many treatment failures and for escalating the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), which is further worsening the TB epidemic," the study conducted by TB Alliance and IMS Health (a health care market research and consulting-services firm) said. Read more
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Watch these dates!

3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 23 April - 2 May 2011

2011-05-02T17:12:00.001+05:30

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 1073 (23 April - 2 May 2011).

1- TB discovery paves the way for drugs that prevent lung destruction
(Source: Imperial College News, UK)
Scientists have identified a key enzyme responsible for destroying lung tissue in tuberculosis (TB), they report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Drugs that inhibit this enzyme are already available, meaning that the finding could lead quickly to new treatments. Read more

2- TBDxV TB Diagnostic Aid in India by Applied Visual Sciences
(Source: The Health Care News, India)
Signature Mapping Medical Sciences, a medical auxiliary of Applied Visual Sciences, has started TBDxV product sales and initiatives by way of subsidiary and agents in India. TBDxV, a fully automated tuberculosis (TB) visualization technology to aid in the diagnosis of TB, addresses the approximately 52 million diagnostic slides analyzed by clinical lab technicians each year. Read more

3- Doctors express concern over wrong diagnosis
(Source: The Times of India, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Roughly 25% diagnosis for tuberculosis is wrong, as physicians do not examine patients correctly. They go by what the tests reflect and as a result doctors get confused between TB, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other lung disease that are different from each other," said Prof Rajendra Prasad, head, pulmonary medicine department and member state task force on tuberculosis. Read more

4- 5% infertility cases had TB but up to 45% got anti-TB treatment
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Genital TB is a major cause of tubal infertility, said Mamta Jacob of Global Health Advocates (GHA). Only two per cent of women with genital TB have live births. It is usually asymptomatic so needs higher degree of suspicion so that proper diagnosis can be made and standard treatment provided as early as possible, said Dr Nerges Mistry, Director, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai. Read more

5- Effectiveness of Four-Drug TB Treatment Confirmed
(Source: Voice of America, USA)
"Multi-drug resistant TB and extensively drug resistant TB are failures of the system," said Dr. Reichman. 'TB is treatable and preventable. And if we find TB properly and treat TB properly, a: they are cured, and b: they don't develop drug resistant TB, whether it be multi-drug or extensive drug." Researchers aim to popularize the four-drug fixed-dose combination pills among international public health officials, policy makers, and patient’s organizations as part of the continuing campaign to eradicate TB. Read more
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Watch these dates!

3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 16-22 April 2011

2011-04-25T17:04:00.000+05:30

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 995 (16-22 April 2011).

1-5% infertility cases had TB but up to 45% got anti-TB treatment
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Genital TB is a major cause of tubal infertility, said Mamta Jacob of Global Health Advocates (GHA). Only two per cent of women with genital TB have live births. It is usually asymptomatic so needs higher degree of suspicion so that proper diagnosis can be made and standard treatment provided as early as possible, said Dr Nerges Mistry, Director, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai. Read more

2- New Test Effective for Detection of Tuberculosis
(Source: Doctor Lounge, USA)
Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and rifampicin resistance (RIF), detected by the MTB/RIF test, is accurate and feasible in resource-poor countries, according to a study published online April 19 in The Lancet. Read more

3- Tests on immigrants 'miss most TB'
(Source: The Independence, UK)
Screening procedures for tuberculosis in immigrants in the UK are missing the majority of cases, new research has revealed. Using new blood checks rather than chest X-rays would detect over 90% of imported latent TB, experts said, as opposed to the current failure to detect more than 70% of cases of latent infection. Read more

4- 509 Cases of Tuberculosis Detected in DK
(Source: Mangalorean News, Karnataka, India)
As at the quarter ending March 31, 2011, 509 cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been detected in the Dakshina Kannada district. This information was provided by district tuberculosis control organization secretary Dr Ramakrishna at a meeting of the District Tuberculosis Eradication Association chaired by its president and deputy commissioner Subodh Yadav. He said that during the said quarter 6,496 suspected cases were identified. Out of them, phegm test was conducted in 5,569 cases and 509 cases have been confirmed as tested positive. Read more

5- Scientists identify enzyme that damages lungs of TB patients
(Source: The Indian Express, New Delhi, India)
Scientists have identified a key enzyme responsible for destroying lung tissues in patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB), a discovery that could lead to new and effective treatment to prevent lung damage. It's known that lung tissue of TB patients are damaged, causing them to cough up the bacteria, which then spread through the air and can be inhaled by others. Read more

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Watch these dates!

3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 9-15 April 2011

2011-04-18T12:45:00.001+05:30

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 945 (9-15 April 2011).

1- 4-Drug Combination for TB Has Similar Efficacy to Single-Drug Regimen
(Source: Med India News, India)
In patients newly diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), a 4-drug fixed-dose combination (FDC) tablet regimen was shown to have similar efficacy to a single-drug protocol, according to the findings of a randomized trial. Christian Lienhardt, MD, MSc, PhD, from the Stop TB Partnership division of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France reported outcomes of their clinical trial in the April 13 issue of JAMA. Read more

2- Pvt pharma firms knock CSIR to develop TB drug
(Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, India)
In a first, two pharmaceutical companies have expressed their desire to be a part of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR) open source drug discovery (OSDD) project for tuberculosis (TB). If the proposals are accepted, bulk of the cost of the clinical trials will be borne by government. In the event of a drug being developed, the research organization will have a say over the pricing and the companies cannot apply for a patent. Read more

3- TB in kids: a call to action
(Source: The Hindu, New Delhi, India)
Her frantic mother brought her back to the emergency room after 4 days – by then, she was unconscious and despite all efforts, died the next day. Tests done then showed that she had TB meningitis or TB of the brain in addition to the infection in her lung. Read more

4- 32 hospital staffers died of TB
(Source: Daily News & Analysis (DNA), New Delhi, India)
The Municipal Mazdoor Union has alleged that in the last five years, 60 employees of the BMC-run Sewri TB hospital have suffered from tuberculosis. Of these, 32 have allegedly died and 28 are taking treatment. After repeated agitation and protests to get the government to implement their long-pending demand of healthcare cover for the employees, the union, decided to adopt the Gandhian way of protest. Read more

5- Patients Fail to Adhere to TB Treatment
(Source: IPS News, Swaziland)
Every five minutes she gives a hacking cough. Ndlaleni Ndzinisa (70) says she has continuously suffered from tuberculosis for the past five years. Because she cannot afford to pay for transport to the nearest hospital, she has repeatedly failed to adhere to her tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Read more

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Watch these dates!

3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
28 June: 4th Global Fund Partnership Forum Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong
6-8 June: National Tuberculosis Research Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 2-8 April 2011

2011-04-09T17:33:00.002+05:30

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 850 (2-8 April 2011).

1- World Health Day: Coordinated approach needed to overcome anti-TB drug resistance
(Source: Citizen News Service, India/Thailand)
When TB is misdiagnosed or the treatment is poorly managed, the doors open to drug resistance. Consequently training for people at every level of the health care system is central to The Union's approach. Each year courses are offered in high TB burden areas of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East designed to train clinicians and other health care workers about MDR-TB. Read more

2- Stop TB Partnership Makes Noticeable Strides in Elimination of TB
(Source: Top News, India)
The Stop TB Partnership met this week in Washington, DC to track their progress in the commitment they made in 2001 to stop tuberculosis. Despite the good work done by the organization, TB continues to be one of the top causes of death, killing 1.7 million people in 2009 alone. Read more

3- NGO uses biometrics to monitor TB patients
(Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, India)
"If a patient skips medicines or discontinues taking a complete TB course with an impression that he has become healthy, then the disease would become more dreadful. Such person will spread the infection to other people also," Sandeep Ahuja, CEO of Operation Asha, said. Read more

4- TB control staff risk lives to save others sans govt surety
(Source: Kashmir Dispatch, India)
Exposed to a high risk of getting infected from TB patients many a contractual employees are also under treatment for TB and multi-drug resistance TB. “We have been performing our duties to satisfaction of the concerned authorities. Our services are such dedicated that many employees have themselves got infected with this dreaded disease,” a delegation J&K RNTCP Employees Association told Press Bureau of India. Read more

5- Multi-drug-resistant TB can be prevented with TB-DOTS
(Source: PIA News, USA)
Health experts urged patients suffering tuberculosis to strictly observe the TB DOTS or Directly Observed Treatment Short course to prevent the onset of a more complex and dangerous type, the Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR TB). World Health Country Representative for TB Control Dr. Woo-Jin Lew explained that a patient with a poor treatment for first time TB case is most likely to develop MDR TB which requires a costlier treatment than the DOTS. Read more

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Watch these dates!

3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 26 March - 1 April 2011

2011-04-02T18:36:00.003+05:30

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 745 (26 March - 1 April 2011).

1- After treatment for genital tuberculosis (TB), IVF helps woman give birth
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
This is not sensational news but in spotlight because CNS recently reported that genital tuberculosis was one of the lead causes of tubal infertility and only 2 per cent women with genital TB delivered live births. It was a very positive news that a woman with genital TB successfully completed anti-TB treatment and then due to in-vitro fertilisation technique, also succeeded in giving births to normal baby (well, two babies in this case!). Read more

2- Nothing for us without us
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
"Nothing for Us without Us" was said by an activist friend from Africa at one of the conferences. Another World TB Day (WTBD) has come and gone and this time Delhi was abuzz with events more than ever before. A media awards function honouring journalists from different parts of the country. Read more

3- First Chinese Product Development Partnership For Global Health
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
On World TB Day 2011, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Stop TB Partnership called upon world leaders to step up their commitment and contributions to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating one million people with multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) between 2011 and 2015. Read more

4- Why pay when TB treatment is free?
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
People need not be afraid of tuberculosis (TB) as it is completely curable. People should be encouraged to go to the government-run free anti-TB treatment centres (providing the WHO recommended Directly Observed Treatment Short course - DOTS), rather than opt for visiting private practitioners as paying for treatment places an additional burden on the TB patient, said Dr Ashok Kumar, Deputy Director General, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Read more

5- WHO raises concern over drug resistant Ttuberculosis(Source: Daily Monitor, USA)
The UN health body says unless greater efforts are made to fight multi-drug resistant TB, the number of deaths from the disease will continue to grow. Multi-drug resistant TB is a form of TB that fails to respond to standard first-line drugs. Currently TB kills an estimated two million people annually, especially in developing countries. Read more
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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 19-25 March 2011

2011-03-26T14:51:00.000+05:30

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 684 (19-25 March 2011).

1- Together We Can Fight Tuberculosis (TB)
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
"In 2009, out of the estimated global annual incidence of 9.4 million TB cases, 1.98 million were estimated to have occurred in India, thus accounting for a fifth of the global burden of TB. Every year, on an average nearly 1.8 million people develop TB among which 0.9 million are infectious. Chhattisgarh district alone contributes about 51000 new TB cases per annum" said Alka Pathak. Read more
2- TREAT TB seeks answers to key questions in fight against TB
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Key questions regarding the new tools and new challenges facing TB control and prevention today are being addressed through an innovative international initiative, TREAT TB. The purpose of TREAT TB, which stands for Technology, Research, Education and Technical Assistance for Tuberculosis, is to conduct field evaluations of new diagnostic tools, clinical trials of priority research questions and operational research benefiting TB control. Read more

3- Spotlight on new approach to tuberculosis vaccine funding
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), 24 March 2011)
European politicians, tuberculosis (TB) advocates and health advisers are gathering to discuss an innovative financing model that would enable scientific discoveries to be translated into TB vaccines. On the occasion of a World TB Day meeting, Joris Vandeputte of TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) will present a new funding plan: "Our governments are faced with a difficult question: how to reduce the deficit while maintaining a commitment to invest 3% of gross national income in research and innovation?" Read more

4- Project Axshya to reach 744 million people with TB control services
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Clearly more needs to be done for effective tuberculosis (TB) control by reaching out to the unreached populations who are least likely to access existing TB care services. Project Axshya, aims to do exactly that. Supported by one of the largest grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), the five-year project got underway last year with a focus on engaging civil society to improve the reach and effectiveness of India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in 374 districts across 23 Indian states, reaching some 744 million people by 2015. Read more

5- Fixing drug supply and price problems is urgent: report
(Source: Citizen News Services (CNS), India/Thailand)
A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to solve major problems around the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines, according to a new report by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), and international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Read more

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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 12-18 March 2011

2011-03-22T12:11:00.000+05:30

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 576 (12-18 March 2011).

1- TB-HIV co-infection: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) and anti-TB treatment save lives
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) save lives. This reinforces already existing body of evidence of beneficial public health outcomes of providing ART along with standard anti-TB treatment to TB and HIV co-infected people. These new study results were presented at the recently concluded 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2011). Read more

2- Transforming the fight towards elimination: World TB Day
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
According to the Stop TB Partnership, For World TB Day 2011 we enter the second year of a two-year campaign, "On the move against tuberculosis" whose goal is to inspire innovation in TB research and care. This year's campaign challenges us to look at the fight against TB in an entirely new way: that every step we take should be a step towards TB elimination. Read more

3- Standard re-treatment regimen for TB 'failing' in developing world
(Source: Asian News International, India)
A new study has revealed that the standard approach to re-treating tuberculosis (TB) in low and middle-income settings is failing. Researchers have called for improved access to rapid diagnostics for drug resistant TB, second-line TB treatment and antiretroviral HIV therapy. Each year, between one in ten and one in five patients treated for TB see their disease return after failing, interrupting or relapsing from treatment. Read more

4- Diabetes, tuberculosis drugs prices increased
(Source: Press Trust of India, India)
The drug price regulator has also reduced prices of 14 drugs, while that of 21 drugs remained unchanged in its latest review meeting held last week. The majority of the drugs, whose prices have been increased are used in treatment of diabetes and tuberculosis. Read more

5- Multi-drug resistant TB rates rising in Europe
(Source: Top News, USA)
World health programs aimed at fighting tuberculosis (TB) are being hampered due to the rise in the rates multi-drug resistant TB! According to the experts from the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (WHO-ECDC), the spread of multi-drug-resistant TB – called MDR TB - in Europe, as well as the persistence of TB among children, are matters of grave concern. Read more ------------------------------------------------------------

Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 5-11 March 2011

2011-03-14T16:46:00.003+05:30

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 534 (5-11 March 2011).

1- Women with tuberculosis (TB) could lose their home
(Source: Citizen News Service , India/Thailand)
According to the study done by Tuberculosis Research Centre in India alarming numbers of women with tuberculosis (TB) become homeless once diagnosed with TB. At a meeting on importance of addressing TB in context of women’s health organized by Global Health Advocates (GHA) to mark the International Women's Day (8th March), this fact sent shivers down the spine: 100,000 women are abandoned by their husbands due to TB every year in India. Read more

2- Social determinants put women at risk of tuberculosis (TB)
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
It is no coincidence but rather an ill-synergy of a range of factors that increase the risk for a woman to get tuberculosis (TB). In India, sixty per cent women are poor which often means poor living conditions, poor food, long working hours and ignoring health overtime. Fifty five per cent women are anaemic. Anaemia is a cause of TB (as it accelerates progression from latent TB infection to active TB disease) and effect of TB too (once a person develops TB anaemia can set in). Read more

3- Genital tuberculosis major cause of tubal infertility in women
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of tubal infertility, said Mamta Jacob of Global Health Advocates (GHA) at a meeting on importance of addressing TB in context of women's health in New Delhi, India, to mark the International Women's Day (8th March). Only two per cent of women with genital TB have live births. Read more

4- 'Be The Change' in tuberculosis control among women'
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Although women get diagnosed for tuberculosis (TB) later than men, treatment outcomes among women are better than men with higher TB treatment success rate and lower default (drop-out) rate in the female patients. Among the unreached people who need TB care, a significant number of them are likely to be poor and probably women. There is a lot more we need to do to bring in the desired change in diagnosing people with TB as early as possible and treating them with standard regimens successfully. Read more

5- Tuberculosis treatment outcomes are better among women
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes are better among women as compared to those in men, said Dr KS Sachdeva, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) of the Government of India. According to the RNTCP data, among new sputum positive cases of TB registered in 2009, TB treatment success rates were higher in women (89 per cent) than those in men (87 per cent) and less women dropped out of TB treatment than men (4 per cent drop out or default rate for women, and 6 per cent default rate in men). Read more
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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 26 February-4 March 2011

2011-03-08T16:44:00.005+05:30

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 463 (26 February-4 March 2011).

1- Blocking The Bacterial Efflux Pumps In TB Organisms May Reduce Multi-Drug Tolerance, Speed Up Cures
(Source: Medical News Today, UK)
New findings on how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria develop multi-drug tolerance point to ways TB infections might be cured more quickly. The study will be published April 1 in the journal Cell. The results identify both a mechanism and a potential therapy for drug tolerance that is induced in the TB bacteria by the host cells they infect. Read more

2- Over 19.7 lakh people suffering from TB: Govt
(Source: Press Trust of India, New Delhi, India)
The government said an estimated 19.7 lakh people are suffering from tuberculosis in the country. Replying to a query in Lok Sabha during the question hour, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi said the number of patients suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) is estimated to be at 98,846. "The estimated number of patients suffering from tuberculosis in the country is 19,76,927," Trivedi said. Read more

3- 200 MDR TB cases occur yearly
(Source: The Swazi Observer, Switzerland)
THERE are about 200 cases of Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis occurring in the country annually, of which 20 could be of Extreme Drug Resistant TB. This is contained in the ministry of health’s annual report for the 3rd quarter, where it is stated that there are currently 317 cases of MDR and five of XDR since the rapid assessment conducted in 2007. Read more

4- Global Funding and DOTS Coverage Vital for Mobilizing TB Programmes
(Source: News Blaze News, Nepal)
About 10 months ago, Anu Marhatta, 19, had a bout of fever along with a cough. Two months later it was clear that Anu had developed Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). It turned her happy world upside down. Read more

5- Tuberculosis rates in Birmingham reach Third World levels
(Source: Birmingham News, UK)
The Government is being urged to reconsider its policy on vaccinating all schoolchildren for tuberculosis (TB) as rates in Birmingham reach Third World levels. The city’s Health Scrutiny Committee is writing to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley asking if the city can bring back jabs for all children and vulnerable adults. It comes after thousands of residents signed three petitions circulating across the city backing the reinstatement of a mass vaccination programme for schoolchildren, which was abandoned by the Government in 2005. Read more
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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 19-25 February 2011

2011-03-01T13:35:00.005+05:30

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 401 (19-25 February 2011).

1- Fighting tuberculosis in prisons is a smart choice
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
ighting tuberculosis (TB) in prisons is a smarter choice for governments from economic, social justice and public health criteria. In India, the government was asked to cough up INR 300,000 (>USD 6000) as compensation to be paid to the wife of the TB prison inmate who died inside Howrah Jail. Read more

2- ISU researchers find clue to stopping tuberculosis
(Source: IOWA State Daily, USA)
In 2009, researchers at Iowa State found a chemical that inhibits the human immune system from killing the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. Now they are working to find an enzyme that will inhibit this chemical instead. Read more

3- New antibody therapy to tackle tuberculosis
(Source: Wellcome Trust News, UK)
A new study, funded jointly by the Wellcome Trust and the Dunhill Medical Trust, describes an antibody-based therapy that protects against tuberculosis infection in mice. The findings could lead to new treatments for human tuberculosis, which remains a huge public health burden worldwide. Read more

4- Frontline reports podcast: A new TB test brings Hope
(Source: MSF News, 26 February 2011)
In this week's podcast, we hear about the problems associated with diagnosing tuberculosis (TB). The most widely used test for TB hasn’t changed since it was first introduced in the late eighteen hundreds. In addition, the test fails to give accurate results in more than forty to fifty percent of cases. However a long-awaited new test is raising hopes that soon we will be able to identify TB more effectively, get patients on treatment faster, and help reign in this deadly epidemic. Read more

5- Tuberculous meningitis in Denmark: a review of 50 cases
(Source: 7th Space Interactive News, Denmark)
Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis with a high mortality rate and a high rate of sequelae among survivors. The aim of this study is to assess the current epidemiology, clinical features, diagnostic procedures, treatment and outcome in patients with tuberculous meningitis in Denmark, a country with a low tuberculosis incidence. Read more
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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
3-5 March: 18th Africa Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Nigeria
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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)

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor: 12-18 February 2011

2011-02-23T11:44:00.006+05:30

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 351 (12-18 February 2011).
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1- Progress in tuberculosis vaccine research
(Source: Citizen News Service (CNS), India/Thailand)
Collaboration and funding are some of the major requirements for delivering new, more effective and safer vaccines against tuberculosis (TB). This was a much-heard statement during the annual research meeting of the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI). 'Challenging' would be an understatement when it comes to describing the WHO's latest plan for eliminating tuberculosis. Challenging. But certainly not impossible. Read more...

2- State relents, pays Rs 3 lakh for death in custody
(Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, India)
After dilly-dallying for some time, the state government paid Rs 3 lakh last week as compensation to the wife of a convicted prisoner who died of tuberculosis in Howrah jail in 2007. Initially, the state government had decided not to pay the compensation as recommended by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The state had claimed that there was no fault on its part for the death of Bula Santra as it was not a case of custodial death in the true sense. Read more...

3- A Healthy Crisis at a UN-Backed Health Fund
(Source: AOL News, Ghana)
The UN-backed effort to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is in trouble. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Recently it came to light that the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria reported that at least $34 million in grants -- used to procure drugs and other commodities for the world's poor -- had been stolen, along with some of the commodities themselves. Read more...

4- Russia no longer to provide free treatment for victims of tuberculosis
(Source: Kyiv News, Russia)
Apparently in order to save money, Moscow has decided to end government-paid-for treatment of tuberculosis and venereal diseases, a decision that, given the large number of cases in the Russian Federation, will contribute to that country’s continuing demographic decline. Read more...

5- Publication in Nature Medicine Reveals New Diagnostic Tool to Identify Active Tuberculosis Quickly and Effectively
(Source: PR- Inside News, USA)
A new diagnostic tool allowing quick and reliable identification of patients with active tuberculosis has been developed by a Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) –based research team led by Prof. Giuseppe Pantaleo. Published yesterday in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, this discovery, based on specific profiles of the immune system, will offer clinical benefit to patients and should contribute to the development of effective vaccines against tuberculosis. Read more...
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Watch these dates!
8 March: International Women's Day
24 March: World TB Day
7 April: World Health Day
3 May: World Asthma Day
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
21 June: Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, USA
26-30 October: 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Lille, France
8-11 July: 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Union Conference on Lung Health, Hong Kong

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 & 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 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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