MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
MSF report on paediatric TB: Ouf of the Dark
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) launches report on paediatric TB
OUT OF THE DARK: Meeting the Needs of Children with TB
Children with tuberculosis (TB) are largely neglected in national treatment
programmes. There have been no recent advances in the tools to diagnose and
treat children and they are currently far from adequate for the needs of
children. Research and development is urgently needed for appropriate child
friendly preparations of drugs and for tests that improve and simplify TB
diagnosis in children. But until improved tools become available, much can
be done with those that exist to improve the management of TB in children.
In a new report, Medecins Sans Frontieres pushes back against the neglect
of children with TB, urging for paediatric TB to be brought OUT OF THE
DARK, and for treatment providers to make most use of existing diagnostic
tests and treatments. Looking at the tools and strategies available today,
as well as those in the immediate pipeline, the report provides an overview
of paediatric TB diagnostic tools, treatments and prevention methods, and
points to what can be done to fill critical gaps.
To read MSF’s report:
http://www.msfaccess.org/content/out-dark-meeting-needs-of-children-with-TB
Joanna Keenan
Press Officer
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Medecins Sans Frontieres
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Juma Khudonazarov
It is really the topic that needs to be addressed and for some reason all
the Tb issues such as prompt diagnostic more focus on adults rather than
children. We need to work tody with MDR TB contact children today to
prevent further speed of DR TB in community. We all know that the current
respond to pediatric TB cases quite week not only in Asia but other part of
the word.
8:24 AM, 13 Nov 2011 | Permalink
Masoud Dara, MD
Thank you Joanna for sharing this interesting report with us. Once again MSF showed they are in the forefront of humanitarian approach to public health. Indeed childhood TB has been largely neglected in the past, but there are several groups working on it. For easy access, I am providing a web link where you may find a glimpse of the excellent work which is being conducted by the group.
http://www.stoptb.org/wg/dots_expansion/childhoodtb/new.asp
In WHO Regional Office for Europe, we have established a Task Force on Childhood TB to adapt the international guidelines to our Region with particular attention to MDR-TB. I would be able to share with you, Jumma and other colleagues, some more substantial information as the subgroups of our Task Force deliver their preliminary outputs.
All the best,
Masoud
5:22 PM, 1 Dec 2011 | Permalink