Tag Archives: tuberculosis

The African region is home to 17 of the 30 high-burden tuberculosis countries globally Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | Inadequate investment and funding for tuberculosis control in Africa is jeopardizing the efforts to meet the global target of ending the disease by 2030, as the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to roll back …

Children with mild TB will be treated for four months while those with severe TB will be treated for six months using new drugs Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization-WHO has reduced the treatment period for Tuberculosis in children. Previously, children who tested positive for TB had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1,500 Ugandans are living with drug-resistant tuberculosis, this is according to the Ministry of Health. Records also indicate that the ministry can only track 500 people in the hospitals leaving over 1,000 patients spreading the disease in the community. Extensively drug-resistant TB is a type of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is registering cases of a complicated form of drug-resistant Tuberculosis alias Extra Drug-Resistant TB, according to experts. Extra or Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB) is a type of Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) that does not respond to second-line medication like Isoniazid and Rifampicin or …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world – have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. Tuberculosis (TB) is the second deadliest infectious …

Tuberculosis target of diagnosing and treating 40 million people by 2022 could be a mirage due to bottlenecks created by the pandemic Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The target of eliminating tuberculosis by 2030 appears elusive amid hiccups linked to COVID-19 pandemic and dwindling financial allocation by governments and multilateral lenders, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 500,000 babies in Uganda are exposed to polio and tuberculosis. This is because they are not born in hospitals. When children are born, they are supposed to receive polio zero and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin |(BCG) vaccines which protect against tuberculosis at birth. The vaccines …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts are recommending the use of X-ray in detecting new cases of tuberculosis. They argue that the old-style criteria has led to a lot of missed cases. Dr Bruce Kirenga, a lung expert said that for long, health workers have been depending on symptoms to …

TB diagnosis and treatment suffered a setback of 12 years Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One year after the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world on its head, the Stop TB Partnership shared new data showing that nine of the countries with the most tuberculosis (TB) cases—representing 60% of the global …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The number of Tuberculosis patients diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes is one the increase.  According to the Ministry of Health, Diabetes Mellitus also referred to as Type 2 diabetes, is on the rise, with numbers surpassing HIV and TB infection rates.  A study carried out …