To describe the burden of TB in healthcare workers (HCWs) in the UK and determine whether HCWs are at increased risk of TB due to occupational exposure.Retrospective cohort analysis of national UK TB surveillance and genotyping data between 2009 and 2013. The rate of TB in HCWs compared with...
Acceptance to the widespread use of IPT among HCWs can be improved through education on risk and counselling.Keywords: healthcare workers,infection control,isoniazid preventive therapy,occupational health and safety,tuberculosisdoi:10.1080/23120053.2016.1181421Calnan, Marianne...
Much of the unskilled and semi-skilled workforce in Thailand comprises migrant workers from neighbouring countries. While, in principle, healthcare facilities in the host country are open to those migrants registered with the Ministry of Labour, their actual healthcare-seeking preferences and practices...
Further, this pick and choose approach confuses healthcare workers performing this duty as well as the very people exposed to active TB. It provides a perception that those not screened for LTBI are not valued, or are invulnerable from acquiring TB. Even worse, it implies that TB is somehow...
Research Institute. Now, in addition to my TB advocacy work, I’m conducting research on patients who’ve been diagnosed with and survived TB. It’s all part of an effort to improve conditions for healthcare workers who are exposed to TB as well as the patients fighting for their lives....
Since then, India's national strategic plan now recommends private and informal health sector engagement in TB education activities, enhanced access to TB molecular diagnostic tests, and innovative TB care delivery approaches [11]. Novel diagnostics offer an opportunity to address these diagnostic gaps...
Currently, research is also lacking a detailed analysis of the interaction between available technologies for TB control and the diversity of local health system contexts, considering the resources, political project and the willingness of local health managers and health care workers [6, 7]. ...
Thus, in people who are tested regularly (eg, health care workers), the second routine test will be positive, giving the false appearance of recent infection (and hence mandating further testing and treatment). If recurrent testing for LTBI is indicated, a second TST should be done (on the...
Higher Education Crossing Borders: A Guide to the Implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) for Cross-border Education The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), adopted by the World Trade Organization in 1995, clearly identifies education as a service to be liber...
On the other hand, another study has shown that the blocking activity of antibodies against Mtb is dependent on antibody isotype and independent of Fc alpha receptor expression on host cells.121 Furthermore, antibodies from unin- fected healthcare workers who had no prior evidence of latent TB ...