| 02/09/2016 | Uncategorized, Multi resistant TB, Project News | Read more ›› |
TB outpatient care is becoming a reality. However, treatment of multidrug resistant TB at home is still being perceived with caution – there’s fear of possible disease transmission among contacts, severe adverse effects, inability of the patient to stand the long treatment course without the pressure of the hospital walls. Therefore the findings of the Read more››
| 03/08/2016 | Multi resistant TB | Read more ›› |
2 August 2016 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership is pleased to announce that its TB REACH initiative is now accepting applications to fund innovative approaches and technologies which aim to increase the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB, to decrease the time to appropriate treatment and to improve treatment success rates. The Read more››
| 27/07/2016 | Multi resistant TB, Project News | Read more ›› |
A new publication on multicountry surveillance of resistance to Z and FLQs was published in LancetInfectDis2016 on July 7, 2016: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099(16)30190-6.pdf Background Pyrazinamide and fluoroquinolones are essential antituberculosis drugs in new rifampicin-sparing regimens. However, little information about the extent of resistance to these drugs at the population level is available. Methods In a molecular epidemiology Read more››
| 05/07/2016 | Multi resistant TB, Project News | Read more ›› |
Recently, the WHO published long-awaited updated WHO guidelines on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): http://www.who.int/tb/MDRTBguidelines2016.pdf?ua=1. The USAID Strengthening TB Control in Ukraine project has prepared a short summary of the most important recommendations from the guidelines for the Ukrainian health specialists (download in Ukrainian). Like all WHO recommendations, this document has a considerable evidence base. Even compared Read more››
| 09/06/2016 | Events, HIV-associated tuberculosis, Stop TB strategy implementation, Multi resistant TB, Seminars, Round Tables | Read more ›› |
On June 9, 2016, USAID “Strengthening Tuberculosis (TB) Control in Ukraine” Project will hold a seminar on "Improving TB Treatment, including MDR TB and TB/HIV, through Implementation of International Standards on Side Effects Management" for TB specialists in the Odesa oblast. The purpose of the workshop is to promote more effective TB treatment through reducing the period Read more››