As of 2014, there remain many challenges in the organizational set-up of TB care in Eastern Europe and often only limited possibilities of support for the vulnerable IDU populations, including in particular opioid substitution therapy. Further, high prevalences of multi-drug-resistant TB (MR-TB)...
The project also is increasing use of treatment adherence tools, including mobile apps – especially in the private sector, supporting the decentralization of treatment, the acquisition of second-line drugs for an all-oral treatment regimen, and expanding health care packages to include DR-TB ...
Food security and nutrition play an important role in HIV and TB care and treatment, including for improving treatment outcomes, adherence and uptake of HIV and TB care. This AIDS and behaviour supplement on "Adherence to HIV and TB care and treatment, the role of food security and nutrition...
Unfortunately, these measures are neither possible nor practical in countries where TB is a public health problem. Drug therapy For initial empiric treatment of TB, start patients on a 4-drug regimen: isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol. Once the TB isolate is known to be fully ...
to support development of new tools and enable their timely and effective use to protect and promote human rights in TB prevention, care and control. The guideline identifies ethical values that are important to TB care and control, such as “social justice and equity” (addressing underlying ...
Data from clinical trials, retrospective cohort studies and routine follow-up examinations can allow for studying the immuno-physiological status of patients with MDR-TB and designing personalised adjunct host-directed therapies (HDT) based on clinical experience from cancer treatment options (Tiberi et ...
These recommendations provide a structure through which healthcare professionals can better manage the complex drug regimens required for the treatment of MDR-TB; minimising the risk of adverse incidents and helping to improve patients' tolerance, compliance and treatment completion. 展开 ...
When it comes to TB treatment, "there's an urgent need for shorter-duration, more potent, and safer anti-TB agents that are not only effective against drug-susceptible TB but also drug-resistant TB," Takuva told attendees. Quabodepistat is a novel decaprenyl-phosphoryl-β-D-ribose-2'-...
Therefore, it is necessary to have a holistic vision of the treatment where psychobehavioral support, and in particular cases neuromodulatory and complementary alternative medicine, can be not a substitute but an integrative part of it.This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an ...
which resulted in an exacerbated immune response when administered therapeutically in active TB patients (known as the “Koch phenomenon”). However, at that time tuberculin was administered alone due to the lack of treatment options. Recently, it was shown that the occurrence of such exacerbated ...