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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…

By Pamela Marks on 07 May 2013 0 Recommendations 1 Replies

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

By Ariful Basher on 03 May 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

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"…

By Vivian Huang, MD, MPH on 02 May 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

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…

By Alexander Golubkov on 27 Apr 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

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…

By Kelsey Han on 19 Apr 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

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…

By Vivian Huang, MD, MPH on 27 Mar 2013 0 Recommendations 18 Replies

"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…

By Agnès Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped) on 13 Feb 2013 1 Recommendations 14 Replies

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

By Masoud Dara, MD on 07 Jan 2013 2 Recommendations 36 Replies

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.

By Sophie Beauvais on 08 Dec 2012 2 Recommendations 86 Replies

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.…

By Sophie Beauvais on 09 May 2011 1 Recommendations 67 Replies
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In this community, professionals share information regarding the clinical, programmatic and community-oriented aspects of early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Members also use this forum to promote universal access to quality care for MDR-TB.

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