1st June, 2017, Ukraine - Today we celebrate International Children’s Day and it’s time to think of the one million children who are suffering with or are affected by TB and TB/HIV. Many children who live with parents, guardians and others who have confirmed TB ...

Georgia is currently facing a problem of a high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) and relatively low treatment success rates. Many patients are not followed up properly which contributes to high levels of multidrug-resistant TB: 12 % of new patients are resistant to first line drugs. ...

User experience analysis of e-TB Manager, a nationwide electronic TB recording and reporting system in Ukraine Abstract Ukraine has successfully implemented e-TB Manager nationwide as its mandatory national tuberculosis registry after first introducing it in 2009. Our objective was to perform an end-of-programme evaluation after formal handover ...

Recurrent TB and associated factors: A five-year countrywide study in Uzbekistan Abstract Background In Uzbekistan, despite stable and relatively high tuberculosis treatment success rates, relatively high rates of recurrent tuberculosis have recently been reported. Recurrent tuberculosis is when a patient who was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis and cured, ...

Treatment Action Group and the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership will host a 2-part webinar series on civil society asks and engagement ahead of the Global Ministerial Conference on TB to be held on 16–17 November 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation. The two webinars will take ...

Over the next 20 years, cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are set to rise in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa – the four countries which already bear the highest burden. A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases says the rise is likely ...

DR-TB STAT and the Sentinel Project will host a webinar, MDR-TB Treatment with Bedaquiline in Children and Adolescents: Global Recommendations and Program Experience in Belarus on 26 May 2017. For more information about the webinar and how to connect, click here. Source

The World Health Organization (WHO) updated the fourth edition of the Guidelines for treatment of tuberculosis published in 2010. The Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization convened a meeting of a Guidelines Development Group on 11-13 July 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland in order to ...

Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) presents the regional report “Programmatic and Finance Gaps for Key Populations in a Selection of Eastern European and Central Asian Countries,” which covers the financial and programmatic data, barriers and challenges to strengthening the continuum of HIV care in seven ...

Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 309 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter features articles on various topics, including an article on the release of Aidspan’s Asia Pacific report, which provides an overview of ...

To end the TB epidemic, Ukraine has only one recipe – to implement quality people-centered TB care! This statement was made by Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Health at the press conference to mark World Tuberculosis Day. “Within its pilot projects supported ...

To mark World TB Day, 24 March 2017, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases published a special issue on TB. It highlights the Advances, Challenges and Opportunities in the ‘End TB’ Era through publishing 42 articles by a distinguished global authorship. The series of articles review progress ...

Central Asia and the Russian Federation face a major intra-regional migration flow, home, as it is, to one of the largest labor migration corridors in the world, with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers moving from Central Asian countries to the Russian Federation and to ...

Testing all patients is vital if the proportion of HIV co-infections is to fall in the European Union and European Economic Area, the World Health Organization has announced ahead of World TB Day 2017. The proportion of people in Europe living with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV ...

New tuberculosis (TB) ethics guidance, launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to help ensure that countries implementing the End TB Strategy adhere to sound ethical standards to protect the rights of all those affected. TB, the world’s top infectious disease killer, claims 5 ...

On 6th March 2017, European AIDS Treatment Group and Treatment Action Group (TAG) have jointly organized the webinar on TB Diagnostics. Moderator: Evgenia Maron Speakers: Ruth McNerney, University of Cape Town – TB Diagnostics Erika Lessem, Treatment Action Group – Advocating for better TB diagnosis Presentations and documents of the webinar

Copenhagen and Stockholm, 20 March 2017 New data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe ahead of World TB Day show that new tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths in the 53 countries of the ...

The Stop TB Partnership delivered the letter to WHO requesting inclusion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the WHO’s Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery and development of new antibiotics. STOP TB PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Geneva, Switzerland – 6 March 2017 — We would like to ...