Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease, caused by a bacterial pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is one of the top-ten causes of death in human (about 1.5 million each year) due to a single infectious agent. The global TB report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Measuring vulnerability and identifying determinants of vulnerability are key to designing interventions for marginalized groups like sex workers. The current study introduces a new approach of measuring vulnerability among female sex workers (FSWs) by adopting a multidimensional poverty measurement framework....
“Early diagnosis and complete treatment is important to prevent and control TB. To address the problem of rising drug resistance, TB is a notifiable disease. The approach to all notifiable diseases should therefore be based on DTR “Diagnose, Treat and Report”: Diagnose early, using sputum Gen...
India has been in focus on the world scenario due to tuberculosis (TB). The country, reporting the highest number of estimated incident cases of TB (1.5 million out of an estimated 5.8 million global cases in the year 2020)1, has set an ambitious target of eliminating TB by the year 202...
Approximately 7% of all reported tuberculosis (TB) cases each year are recurrent, occurring among people who have had TB in the recent or distant past. TB recurrence is particularly common in India, which has the largest TB burden worldwide. Although patients recently treated for TB are at hig...
With 2.14 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in 2017, India accounted for 23% of estimatedHIV infectionsin the Asia–Pacific region. The prevalence rate of 0.34% in 2007 declined to 0.22% in 2017. The incidence of TB is 199 per 100,000 population (WHO, 2018). The burden of ...
The overall value of initiating anti-retroviral therapy during the acute phase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection remains unclear. Fr... CB Hicks,C, Gay,G, Ferrari 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 加载更多研究点推荐HIV TB bedside CRP testing 0...
Part 3:In One Kerala District, A Community Group Supports TB Patients At No Cost To Govt Part 4:How Kerala Has Enlisted The Private Sector In Its War Against TB Documenting rising mob violence Our analysis of news reports from across India showed that since the start of 2018,24...
India TB Report 2024. New Delhi: Government of India; 2024. World Health Organization. Global Tuberculosis Report 2023. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Google Scholar Central TB Division (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare). National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Elimination 2017–2025....
Non-adherence Pulmonary TB COVID-19 1. Introduction TB is a major health concern.1 Globally, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2018, accounting for approximately 1.5 million deaths in 2018. These include 251,000 HIV positive patients,2 thus making TB the leading cause of ...