In this question-and-answer interview, Dermot Maher, BM, BCh, medical officer in the Stop TB Department of WHO; Ian Smith, MB, ChB, MPH, and Ger Steenbergen, MD, from the Stop TB Partnership offer some insight into the new international focus on combining TB and HIV/AIDS efforts and why it is necessary.
By asking two simple questions, student health staffers at a Virginia university have found an easy way to zero in on the college students who are most likely to be TB skin test-positive.
Some TB controllers in low-incidence states have resisted the idea of regionalizing TB services, fearing that would mean that already modest resources and budgets might, in the name of efficiency, be pared down even more.
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New data from India and other countries, though still preliminary, show a strong cause-and-effect relationship between tobacco used and TB disease and death, an Indian researcher says.
Three new sites were announced last month by the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.