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From the ground up: Building a drug-resistant TB programme in Uganda
Uganda is one of the world's 22 high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB). Despite having a national treatment programme for drug-sensitive TB, there has been an emergence of drug-resistant strains...
Report – Last updated 23 April 2012
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Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Children: 2. Methodological Issues for Conducting and Reporting Research Evaluations of Tuberculosis Diagnostics for Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children. Consensus From an Expert Panel
New Reference standards for TB diagnostics in children As has been highlighted on World TB day, children with TB are an neglected population usually omitted from research in treatment and diagnostics....
In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 03 April 2012
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Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Children: 1. Proposed Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis Disease. Consensus From an Expert Panel
New Reference standards for TB diagnostics in children As has been highlighted on World TB day, children with TB are an neglected population usually omitted from research in treatment and diagnostics....
In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 22 March 2012
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Clinical Research and Development of Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Moving From Silos to Synergy
The development, evaluation, and implementation of new and improved diagnostics have been identified as critical needs by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis researchers and clinicians...
In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 10 April 2012
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False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)
“Finally, someone is talking about this.” I heard this refrain frequently at the recent International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Addis...
Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 06 January 2012
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Paediatric tuberculosis: out of the dark
Children with tuberculosis have been neglected for too long. Children tend to have paucibacillary disease and therefore are less infectious than adults, meaning they have not been prioritised by the...
Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 04 November 2011
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Out of the Dark: Meeting the Needs of Children With TB
This report will outline the current state of paediatric TB care, looking at current practices, new developments and research needs – in paediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. It...
Report – Last updated 26 October 2011
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“Check the child on the patient’s knee!”: Working to improve diagnosis and treatment of children with TB
TB is one of the top ten killers of children around the world. Although curable, many children are not diagnosed with the disease and as a result, not given the treatment that could save their...
Web article – Last updated 25 October 2011
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Five Lives: How a Financial Transaction Tax Could Support Global Health
‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention. These personal experiences are a snapshot of the...
Report – Last updated 20 October 2011
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Inspiring progress in the fight against sleeping sickness
Bamako, Mali - Leopard print chairs, a rather dark conference room filled mainly with African men dressed in either dark suits or colourful long boubous, with some women and westerners here and...
Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 29 September 2011
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