The article offers information on the 20-year End TB Strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO). Topics include the strategy's aim to put an end to the global tuberculosis epidemic, people's need for equal access to fast diagnosis, treatment, and care, and the issue of funding in ...
Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO regional director for Africa, said it is possible to reduce Africa's high TB burden substantially once governments, industry, and donor partners invest in new diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. In Africa, TB continues to be the second leading cause of death from...
The WHO's new End TB Strategy 2016-2035 has evolved from previous global strategies to respond to old and new challenges and take advantage of new opportun... L Knut,R Mario - 《Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene》 被引量: 34发表: 2016年 Diagnosis of Tubercu...
It said more than 90 percent of new cases in the region have been treated successfully, but drug-resistant forms of the disease remain a concern. WHO's End TB Strategy calls on countries to reduce TB deaths by 95 percent and cut new cases by 90 percent between 2015 and 2035. To reach ...
These techniques included observing their partner’s physical conditions (such as physical appearance), assessing their partner’s living situation, and checking their partner’s sexual history. They could also adopt the strategy of “sero-positioning” or “serosorting” (according to the HIV sero...
Although the disease burden caused by TB is falling globally in all WHO regions,in most countries,it is not fast enough to reach the first(2020) milestones of the End TB Strategy. Diagnosis and successful treatment of people with TB averts millions of deaths each year(an estimated 54 million...
The rationale given for this strategy was two-fold: (1) Despite great advancements in testing for blood-transmissible infections, there remains a window period whereby early infections are not detectable. The quarantine protocol precludes any possibility of a window period infection. (2) The ...
s physical conditions (such as physical appearance), assessing their partner’s living situation, and checking their partner’s sexual history. They could also adopt the strategy of “sero-positioning” or “serosorting” (according to the HIV serostatus and/or sex role) [54] to decide ...
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