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Only A Fraction Of TB Patients Get The Best Care
A strategy that can cure up to 90% of all tuberculosis cases, and thus is the best chance for controlling
the global TB epidemic, is reaching only 27% of the world’s TB patients. This is one of the startling discoveries documented in
the latest annual World Health Organization report on the disease entitled "WHO Report 2002: Global Tuberculosis Control,"
which was released last week and appears in today's issue of Vidyya. more
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Information For Patients: Tuberculosis
TB is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are
sick with pulmonary TB are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as
bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected. more
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Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing
This is the 6th annual report on global TB control. It includes data on case notifications and treatment
outcomes from all national control programs that have reported to WHO,together with an analysis of plans,finances,and
constraints on DOTS expansion for 22 high-burden countries (HBC). Seven consecutive years of data are now available to
assess progress towards the 2005 global targets for case detection (70%)and treatment success (85%). more
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Guidelines For The Management Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
About one third of the world’s population is infected by M. tuberculosis. Worldwide in 1995 there
were about nine million new cases of tuberculosis with three million deaths. M. tuberculosis kills more people than any other
single infectious agent. Deaths from tuberculosis comprise 25% of all avoidable deaths in developing countries. 95% of
tuberculosis cases and 98% of tuberculosis deaths are in developing countries; 75% of these cases are in the economically
productive age group (15 - 50 years). more
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Tuberculosis And Air Travel: Guidelines For Prevention And Control
Over the past few years, technology has made travelling easy and readily available. Increasingly larger
numbers of people are using international air travel for business, tourism, and other reasons such as immigration or asylum
seeking. Several outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as staphylococcal food poisoning, measles, influenza, and others,
following exposure within a commercial aircraft, have been documented. Likewise, exposure to infectious TB on commercial
aircraft is a real concern for both passengers and crew. more
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