MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
PMDT Fellowship Training Program: PIH Lesotho, Sponsored by TBCARE II.
Partners In Health Lesotho, sponsored by the TBCARE II project through the United Stated Agency for International Development (USA) is pleased to announce a PMDT Fellowship Training Program which aims to train health care professionals in the programatic…
UNITAID Call for Letter of Intent - Funding opp. Deadline May 22
Dear All, Just learned about this opportunity - Best, Sophie UNITAID is pleased to announce an open call (the "Call") for Letters of Intent (LOI) on the topic of improving access to key preventive, diagnostic and treatment commodities for HIV, TB and…
Xpert MTB/Rif
There are many countries in the world where initial Rif-resistance result is almost always equal to MDR . There, it definitely makes a lot of sense not to waste time before starting appropriate treatment. At the same time, there is number of places where…
Epidemiology of TB and MDR-TB in WHO European Region and Public Health Response with focus on extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and Pott’s disease (European Spine Journal)
Dear Masoud and Kristin Thanks to share this interesting paper with the GHDonline member's. Dr Umubyeyi Nyaruhirira Alaine Senior Program Associate for Laboratory Services MSH- Center for Pharmaceutical Managment (CPM) Tel +250 788677787 Skype:…
May Update on Xpert MTB/RIF roll-out activities
Dear Masoud Thank you vert much for your support and contribute. Somsak NTRL Bangkok ________________________________ From: "GHDonline (Masoud Dara, MD)" <> To: Somsak Rienthong <> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:42 AM…
Child Survival Call to Action in June
Thanks for sharing Devasena. Not sure if anyone from Harvard or our partners is going but looks like it's going to be webcast live. Also wanted to share info on The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (http://sentinel-project.org/): a…
From WHO and the Stop TB Partnership - QUESTIONNAIRE ON NEXT STEPS IN ELIMINATING TB
correct link is http://www.who.int/tb/strategy/survey/en/index.html
TB notifiable disease in India
It seems that the Health Ministry in India has decided to make tuberculosis a notifiable disease. "According to the proposal, the designated authority that would have to be informed about new TB cases are the district health officer/CMO of a district and…
WHO | WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities: guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders
Hi Regina Thank you so much for the guidelines !! Martha On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:35 AM, GHDonline (Regina Bhebhe) < > wrote: > Regina Bhebhe added a new discussion to the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention > community. > > Title: WHO | WHO…