On 26 September 2018, the United Nations (UN) will hold its first high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB), at its headquarters in New York. The title of the meeting – United to End TB: An Urgent Global Response to a Global Epidemic – highlights the need for immediate action to accelerate ...

New WHO interim guidelines contain recommendations regarding preferred first-line regimens for adults, adolescents and children initiating ART, which now include DTG and RAL

Major improvement in treatment outcomes and quality of life of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are expected, following key changes in MDR-TB treatment announced by WHO in the Rapid Communication. The first important change is a new priority ranking of the available medicines for MDR-TB treatment, ...

In response to the rapidly increasing number of new HIV infections in the WHO European Region, the action plan for the health sector response to HIV in WHO European Region was endorsed at the 66th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in September ...

These guidelines aim to provide evidence-based recommendations on the care and treatment of persons diagnosed with chronic HCV infection. They update the care and treatment section of the WHO Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection issued in April ...

Первый План действий по борьбе с вирусными гепатитами в Европейском регионе адаптирует Глобальную стратегию сектора здравоохранения по вирусному гепатиту на 2016-2021 гг. к контексту Европейского региона. План разработан на основе открытого процесса коллективной работы, доработан и одобрен на 66-й сессии Европейского регионального комитета ВОЗ резолюцией ...

The importance of engaging all providers in tuberculosis (TB) care and prevention has been recognized for well over a decade. Over 4 million people with TB are missed each year by health systems and therefore do not get the care they need and deserve. A ...

Это краткое руководство содержит рекомендации по поэтапному переходу к новым рекомендованным ВОЗ схемам лечения ВИЧ-инфекции. Целевая аудитория: руководители страновых программ противодействия ВИЧ-инфекции, закупочные агентства, партнеры по реализации программ, и другие заинтересованные стороны. Цель этого документа – обеспечить бесперебойные поставки антиретровирусных (АРВ) препаратов; безопасно, быстро и ...

About one third of the world’s population has latent tuberculosis (TB) infection and thus acts as a reservoir of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent that causes active TB disease. More than 50 years after the first chemotherapeutic drugs for TB were introduced, the disease remains a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10.4 million persons developed tuberculosis (TB) worldwide in 2016, corresponding to a global incidence of 140 TB cases per 100 000 population. Of those who developed TB, 1.0 million cases (10%) occurred among persons living with HIV. The worldwide ...

The purpose of WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in care and prevention at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of recommended global TB strategies and associated ...