Becky Peters

Becky Peters started a discussion "Global Tuberculosis Control: epidemiology, strategy, financing (WHO Report 2009); with Short Update" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

For Full Report: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/en/ For Short Update: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/index.html For Key Points: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/key_points/en/index.html For Key Points in 6 Languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish): http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2009/key_points_download/en/index.html Summary: On March 24, in honor of World TB Day, The World Health Organization released its 2009 Report on Global Tuberculosis Control. This is the 13th annual report in the series, which aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in controlling the disease ...

Becky Peters started a discussion "Rapid Scale-Up of HIV Care and Treatment Services in Zambia: A Challenge to ART Adherence and Retention in Care" in the Adherence & Retention community.

This presentation by Dr. Jeffrey Stringer - Director and CEO of UAB Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) - was given at the IAPAC conference in March 2008 and highlights experiences from the scaling up of HIV care and treatment services in Lusaka, Zambia. The presentation focuses on ART adherence and retention in care. Background In 2004, The Zambian Ministry of Health began a major scaling-up of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services at ...

Becky Peters started a discussion "Inhaling to Mitigate Exhaled Bioaerosols" in the TB Infection Control community.

ABSTRACT: Humans commonly exhale aerosols comprised of small droplets of airway-lining fluid during normal breathing. These “exhaled bioaerosols” may carry airborne pathogens and thereby magnify the spread of certain infectious diseases, such as influenza, tuberculosis, and severe acute respiratory syndrome. We hypothesize that, by altering lung airway surface properties through an inhaled nontoxic aerosol, we might substantially diminish the number of exhaled bioaerosol droplets and thereby provide a simple means to potentially mitigate the spread ...

Becky Peters replied to "Competencies for TB/HIV" in the TB Infection Control community.

Hello Moses, Thanks for your question about a list of competencies for health care workers in TB and TB/HIV. Do any community members know of such a list? I hope the following resource is helpful: - Partners in Health MDR-TB Curriculum: http://www.ghdonline.org/drtb/resource/mdr-tb-curriculum-facilitators-and-participants-ma/ This set of interactive training materials was created by Partners In Health in partnership with the Lesotho Ministry of Health. The curriculum covers a number of topics, including TB-HIV epidemiology and TB-HIV Co-management. ...

Becky Peters replied to "Infection control at home" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Members, Just a note to remind you that GHDonline communities do not accept file attachments by email at this point. If you wish to add images to this discussion, we suggest the following: 1/ Sign in to GHDonline 2/ Add these images as resources (either in a word document in order to have only one file or as separate resources). 3/ Reply to the discussion with the links to images in your message Thank ...