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The role of mhealth in the fight against tuberculosis
mHealth Alliance, 2012New tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) are needed, and making health services available to the people most vulnerable to contracting it is deeply required. This paper argues that mobile phones can bring about such positive change.DocumentWhy are tuberculosis patients not treated earlier? A study of informal health practitioners in Bangladesh
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2011This study examines the role of informal health practitioners in delays in initiating tuberculosis (TB) treatment in new smear-positive TB patients.DocumentDon’t stop now: how underfunding the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria impacts on the HIV response
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2012In November 2011, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) announced that its next scheduled funding round was cancelled. This report draws on recently collected field data from numerous countries where the International HIV/AIDS Alliance operates to explain why AIDS funding crisis requires urgent action.DocumentTime to act: save a million lives by 2015: prevent and treat among people living with HIV
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in people living with HIV. This report is a call that TB should not be a death sentence for a two million people living with HIV and expected to die of TB between 2011 and 2015. The report highlights the following related facts and drawn findings:DocumentWHO recommended collaborative TB/HIV activities: evaluation of implementation and performance in a rural district hospital in Cameroon
National Centre for Biotechnology Information, USA, 2011In response to the need of integrating tuberculosis (TB)/HIV activities, the WHO in 2004 mapped out a number of key activities to be implemented by countries to ensure effective collaboration between TB and HIV programmes.DocumentTiming and uptake of ART during treatment for active tuberculosis in HIV co-infected adults in Malawi
Ingenta, 2011Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened the period to 2 weeks instead of 2 months.DocumentPublic-private mix for TB care and control: a toolkit
World Health Organization, 2010In order to meet the global TB control targets, the Stop TB Strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systematic engagement of all care providers in TB care and control through public-private mix (PPM) approaches.DocumentFalling short: ensuring access to simple, safe and effective first-line medicines for tuberculosis
Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, 2010This report presents evidence to document the challenges hindering effective first-line TB treatment worldwide. Many TB patients around the world are at risk because: they are not receiving the medicines they need, whether because of poor quality, interruptions in the drug supply known as stock-outsDocumentFinancing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda: An equity analysis
EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has been no assessment of their impact on equity in health sector financing in Uganda.OrganisationEQUI-TB Knowledge Programme
The EQUI-TB Knowledge Programme aims to promote the implementation of pro-poor strategies, which enhance care and support for TB among the poorest.Pages