MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
Lancet TB series
Dear All As you may already be aware, the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community - ECSA Health Community is a legitimate inter-governmental regional organization established in 1974 under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London to…
Treatment of TB sequele
Hi I am from Bangladesh working in ID hospital with very limited facilities. It always make difficulty in sputum negative PTB whether drug resistant or post TB sequele specially when there is no improvement. Anybody has suggestion
Benefit of Hearing Aids for MDR TB Patients
Hi, I am curious to know if there have been any studies to show whether hearing aids benefit those patients that have partial hearing loss from MDR TB treatment. I did a quick literature search, but did not find anything. But also, the outcome of "benefit"…
MDR-TB webinar in Russian - МЛУТБ вебинар на русском языке - please disseminate!
Dear Friends, dear Colleagues, The DR TB Training Network https://drtbnetwork.org/ is pleased to announce and invite you to the web-based training course in Russian language: “Basics of MDR-TB Program Management", 14 – 30 May 2013, the aim of which is to…
HOPE Conference "The Global Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant TB" Dr. Neel Gandhi
The HIV Online Provider Education Program and Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Present A HOPE Physicians Conference Dr. Neel R. Gandhi Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Global Health & Infectious Diseases Rollins School of Public Health Emory…
Injections and Deafness
Vivian, thanks for raising and sustaining this interesting discussion. You have raised two critical issues within TB management programs: (1) the lack of an institutionalized approach toward hearing loss within most NTPs and (2) a lack of good…
"Resistant TB: Use Available Tools Now" Nature Correspondence
The ICN TB Project has a full set of training materials based on the transformational training and education methodology which we have developed over the last 8 years. I am willing to share these if people contact me directly. The way we train is very…
Start of 2013 and short introduction of members
Dear All I wish to make some corrections on the consultancy i shared earlier: Development of a* *regional *"P**olicy on Management of M/XDR TB Failures"*for the ECSA region Rgds
Expert Panel Dec. 10-14: Scaling-up GeneXpert MTB/RIF
We have used cartridges beyond the expiry date and those worked just fine.I guess you could use them,you'd just have to change the date in the system so it would accept these cartridges.
Challenges in Rolling-out the GeneXpert MTB/RIF Diagnostic Test in Resource-Limited Settings - May 9-20
Thank you for your replies here. They were really helpful. Just wanted to ask if the system would take the cartridge and not reject it because we were just planning to use them for some training purpose, definitely not for patient care. Thanks a lot.…