While it is found in every country, poorer people living and working in overcrowded conditions are at higher risk of the disease. Eight countries accounted for two-thirds of new TB cases in 2022: India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic...
INDIALATENT infectionHOUSEHOLDSThis article discusses the importance of TB preventive treatment (TPT) for household contacts in India. It states that 5-10% of individuals who come into contact with a pulmonary TB case will develop TB disease at some point in ...
it is considered worthwhile in high-burden regions. Immunization with BCG has few indications in the US, except unavoidable exposure of a child to an infectious TB case that cannot be effectively treated (ie,pre-XDRorXDR-TB) and possibly previously uninfected health care workers exposed toMDR-...
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 pat
Stockout of anti-TB drugs: Are we going to lose the gains achieved in year 2022--2023? 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 4 作者:N Jain,M Jain,A Chaturvedi,NK Jain 摘要: An editorial focuses on the critical issue of stockouts of first-line anti-TB drugs within India's Revised National ...
Over a period of time, there are several landmark achievements including policy and system preparedness for universal access to TB care including mandatory notication of TB cases, development of standard for TB care in India, comprehensive real time TB information management system-NIKSHAY, use of ...
World TB Day in 2023 is on the Friday, 24th of Mar (3/24/2023). World TB Day is on the 83th day of 2023. There are 282 days left in the year. World TB Day Facts Date: Mar 24, 2023 International Also Called: World Tuberculosis Day Celebrations: Raise awareness about the global ...
(yet) ill with the disease and cannot transmit it. The highest burden of TB in 2018 is in 8 countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and South Africa. Brazil, China, the Russian Federation and Zimbabwe, which all have high TB burdens, achieved ...
In 2022, India accounted for nearly 27% of the global TB cases, out of a total of 10.6 million cases worldwide [2]. This persistent challenge has prompted India to intensify its efforts towards TB elimination, a disease that has plagued populations worldwide for many years [3]. Apart ...
The WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG) has recently evaluated data from three novel technologies in this class, i.e., C-Tb (Serum Institute of India, India), Creative-TST or C-TST (formerly known as EC-Test), Anhui Zhifei Longcom, China and Diaskintest (Generium, Russian Federation)...