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- Integration of HIV/TB services (Infographic)
- The goal of integrating HIV and TB services is to decrease the burden of TB and HIV in people at risk of or affected by both diseases.
- World TB Day: Children with tuberculosis being failed
- Much more needs to be done to prevent tuberculosis (TB) which affects at least half a million of the world’s children every year, with as many as 70 000 losing their lives. According to WHO and the Stop TB Partnership, most children can be saved from this curable illness with better diagnosis of the condition, greater access to health services and improved coordination of healthcare programmes.
- World TB Day 2012
- On World TB Day, let’s celebrate a partnership, which in just a few years is helping to transform the AIDS epidemic.
- One million lives can be saved between now and the end of 2015 by preventing and treating tuberculosis among people living with HIV
- A new epidemiological model produced by the Stop TB Partnership, World Health Organization and UNAIDS shows that it is possible to sharply reduce AIDS deaths worldwide by preventing and treating tuberculosis.
- World Health Day 2011: Urgent action necessary to slow down the spread of drug resistance
- Drug resistance is becoming more severe and many infections are no longer easily cured, leading to prolonged and expensive treatment and greater risk of death, warns WHO on World Health Day.
- International TB Day 2011
- I am pleased to see that growing collaboration between HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes is bearing fruit. Since 2002 there has been an 80-fold increase in the number of TB patients who were tested for HIV.
- Call for increased commitment to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating one million people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis between 2011 and 2015
- To mark World TB Day, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Stop TB Partnership are calling on world leaders to step up their commitment and contributions to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating one million people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis between 2011 and 2015.
- Affordable TB prevention a must for people living with HIV
- Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death among people with HIV and, in order to mitigate this threat, low-cost preventive therapy is essential. In new guidelines released today, the World Health Organization (WHO) sets out how such therapy can be accessed safely and effectively.
- 400 000 deaths among people living with HIV due to TB in 2009
- The latest WHO Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2010, launched today, highlights the need to reinvigorate efforts to prevent deaths from tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV. In 2009 there were an estimated 1.1 million cases of TB disease in people living with HIV, resulting in 0.4 million deaths. Yet TB is mostly preventable and curable.
- Plan launched to halve TB prevalence and death rates by 2015
- The Stop TB partnership has launched a Global Plan to Stop TB (2011-2015) aimed at halving tuberculosis (TB) prevalence and death rates by 2015 to reach the Millennium Development Goal of halting and beginning to reverse the epidemic by 2015.
- TB partners meet in Viet Nam
- The 18th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board meeting is being held from 4 – 5 May 2010 in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The meeting will bring together UNAIDS and the Stop TB Partnership to strengthen their joint response to HIV/TB co-infection and to agree on a compact intended to halve TB deaths in people living with HIV by 2015.
- Advocate Gerry Elsdon: A voice and a face for TB
- Gerry Elsdon was at the height of her professional career as a popular TV personality in South Africa when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She is now an advocate for the rights of people affected by TB.
- WHO report highlights growing numbers of drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Up to a quarter of people with tuberculosis in some regions can no longer be treated with standard drug regimens. This is the stark finding of a new World Health Organization report which estimates that 440,000 people had multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in 2008, a third of whom died.
- New data shows progress in addressing TB/HIV
- Some 36 million people have been cured of TB over the past 15 years and 8 million deaths averted, according to a new report by WHO. The report also shows continued progress on addressing the lethal combination of TB/HIV.
- UNAIDS Head visits oldest HIV treatment centre in Karnataka
- Concluding his official visit to India, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé yesterday visited the HIV treatment centre at Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospitals in Bangalore. The government run centre is the largest and oldest in Karnataka and has the highest rate of integrated HIV and TB services in India. The treatment centre is also one of the few sites able to both evaluate, with a viral load test, when first line treatment is failing, and provide access and establish people on second line treatment.
- Rwanda leading the way in jointly tackling TB and HIV
- Dr Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé together witnessed, first-hand, delivery of integrated HIV and TB services during a visit to the Socio-Medical Centre in Biryogo, Rwanda.
- New website launched to improve diagnosis of TB among people living with HIV
- A new web site, Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis, has been launched that aims to provide the most comprehensive single source of evidence synthesis, policies, guidelines and research agendas on TB diagnosis. It is also a source for complete up-to-date information on the current TB diagnostics pipeline. Standard operating procedures and package inserts for several tests also are available.
- Better HIV diagnosis in mothers and infants to avoid death from TB vaccine
- Bacille Calmette-Guérin, or BCG, is one of the most widely given vaccines globally and is safe in people with healthy immune systems. WHO recently published further research on the finding that this standard tuberculosis vaccine has a higher risk of causing death in babies living with HIV.
- Collaboration between TB Alliance and Tibotec offers hope of accelerated tuberculosis drug development
- In response to the urgent need to accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs to fight tuberculosis (TB), a landmark collaboration between the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a non-profit, product development partnership, and Tibotec Inc., (Tibotec), a global pharmaceutical company, was announced at the Pacific Health Summit.
- Cartoons to help stop tuberculosis
- International football icon and Stop TB Ambassador Luis Figo is the main character of an educational comic book that provides key information on tuberculosis (TB) to children and young adults. An animated version of the Luis Figo and the World Tuberculosis Cup will be launched in Geneva on 13 June 2009 during a charity match organized by the Luis Figo Foundation.