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were in Africa, while half of all new cases were in six Asian countries -- Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines. * TB is the seventh-highest cause of mortality in poor countries. * The average TB patient loses three to four  

More tuberculosis sufferers in Liberia are seeking testing and treatment, which health officials say reflects increased awareness that the disease does not have to be a death sentence. From January to September 2009, 4,401 tuberculosis (TB) patients ...  

Recent policy changes to movement controls relating to bovine tuberculosis (TB) will provide owners of TB-restricted cattle in England and Wales with a greater range of options for moving and trading animals  

The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in developed countries has decreased since the 1990s, reflecting worldwide efforts to identify and treat TB according to WHO recommendations. However TB remains an important public health problem in industrialized ...  

Treatment for alcohol use disorders and tuberculosis (TB) is rarely integrated, even though the two diseases have a high co-occurrence. American and Russian researchers have jointly designed and are monitoring an innovative program that will deliver alcohol treatment as part of routine TB care. The trial study is continuing.  

Radio New Zealand InternationalMarshall Islands steps up battle against drug resistant TBRadio New Zealand InternationalThe main hospital in the Marshall Islands is doubling the number of beds in its tuberculosis isolation ward. This is to help contain a growing problem that ...Marshalls parliament opens 2010 sittingRadio New Zealand Internationalall 2 news articles »  

South Korea plans to assist the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis, local media reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed high-ranking government officia...  

Background: Directly observed therapy (DOT) remains the cornerstone of the global tuberculosis (TB) control strategy. Tanzania, one of the 22 high-burden countries regarding TB, changed the first-line treatment regimen to contain rifampicin-containing fixed-dose combination for the full 6 months of treatment. As daily health facility-based DOT for this long period is not feasible for the patient, nor for the health system, Tanzania introduced...  

Sexual Inequality in Tuberculosis Source: PLoS Medicine Summary Points In most countries, tuberculosis (TB) notification is twice as high in men as in women. Although there is clear evidence that socioeconomic and cultural factors leading to barriers in accessing health care may cause undernotification in women, particularly in developing countries, biological mechanisms may actually account for a significant part [...]  

EDITOR’S NOTE — Once-curable diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria are coming back as germs rapidly mutate to form aggressive strains that resist drugs. The reason: The misuse of the very drugs that were supposed to save us has built up drug ...  

Juarez's strain -- so-called extremely drug-resistant, or XXDR, TB -- has never before been seen in the United States, according to Dr. David Ashkin, one of the nation's leading experts on tuberculosis. XXDR tuberculosis is so rare that only a ...  

Catching up on last week's news: * America's first case of "extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis" (XXDR TB) has surfaced -- "a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English." A TB doctor warns against crimethink: "It's not a foreign problem, you can't keep these TB patients out." Actually, this guy could very easily have been kept out. And this: "His treatment cost Florida taxpayers an estimated $500,000." And finally: "The last time...  

The aim of this study was to describe treatment outcomes for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) outpatients on a standardized regimen in Nepal. Methodology Data on pulmonary MDR-TB patients enrolled for treatment in the Green Light Committee ...  

A fatal case of spinal tuberculosis mistaken for metastatic lung cancer ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)Because it is rare in high-income, tuberculosis (TB) low incidence countries, misdiagnoses occur as sufficient clinical experience is lacking. ...  

Sydney Star ObserverFighting tuberculosis should be priority, Fauci saysVaccineNewsDailyTuberculosis is one of the world's leading killers. Every year at least 9 million people are infected with TB, with almost 2 million deaths, according to ...HIV/TB epidemic in Eastern Europe a 'public health disaster'AidsmapThe HIV travel banWashington PostGlobal Fund Returns to Burma with Large GrantThe Irrawaddy News MagazineNews-Medical.net -SP.NL...