Study raises concern over drug-resistant tuberculosis in children, says more than 20 lakh infected globally
8 years, 9 months ago

Study raises concern over drug-resistant tuberculosis in children, says more than 20 lakh infected globally

India TV News  

London: Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that has largely been associated with children who are affected with the disease and also has important implications for the TB control programme. According to a new study done by researchers from the University of Sheffield, Imperial College London, and the World Health Organisation, more then 67 million children were infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis with 850,000 developing active disease. The highest numbers of children with TB were reported in Africa and Southeast Asia, but the World Health Organisation Eastern Mediterranean region, European region, and Western Pacific region are also among those who contribute substantially to the burden of drug-resistant TB because of their much higher proportions of resistance. Not only Mycobacterium tuberculosis, children are also more likely to be be infected by more severe forms of disease such as TB meningitis and disseminated TB, the study suggested.

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Europe sees 10% rise in childhood tuberculosis cases, WHO calls for action
4 days, 17 hours ago

Europe sees 10% rise in childhood tuberculosis cases, WHO calls for action

India Today  

Tuberculosis infections among children in the European region rose 10% in 2023, indicating ongoing transmission and the need for immediate public health measures to control the spread, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. WHO's European region, which comprises 53 countries in Europe and Central Asia, reported more than 7,500 cases among children under 15 years of age in 2023, …

Children, teens in India under-represented in drug-resistant tuberculosis case numbers, find studies
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Children, teens in India under-represented in drug-resistant tuberculosis case numbers, find studies

The Hindu  

Studies have found that children and teenagers treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including those in India, are under-represented in case numbers, with researchers calling for a "focus for case-finding efforts" in this age group. Researchers reviewed previously published studies to understand trends in multidrug-resistant treatment of TB in children and teenagers aged 18 or below. The findings, published in The Lancet …

Children, teens under-represented in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases; finds studies
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Children, teens under-represented in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases; finds studies

India TV News  

Children and teenagers treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including those in India, are under-represented in case numbers, studies have found. Reviewing previous studies, researchers analysed trends in multidrug-resistant treatment of TB in children and teenagers aged 18 or below. One of the reviews, including those from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, analysed 42 studies involving over 23,369 children and …

Children in high tuberculosis zones face high risk of infection by age 10
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Children in high tuberculosis zones face high risk of infection by age 10

India Today  

New findings from a recent study talk about tuberculosis risks in children living in areas where TB is widespread, such as parts of South Africa. According to research led by Boston University School of Public Health, the University of S£o Paulo, and the University of Cape Town, children up to 10 years old in these regions face a high risk …

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high
1 year, 4 months ago

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high

Hindustan Times  

An estimated 10.6 million people developed tuberculosis in 2022. The World Health Organization said this was the highest annual record of new cases of TB since it started monitoring the disease in 1995. Due to isolation and quarantine measures during the pandemic, many people failed to get tested for TB, said Ananthakrishnan: "A large number of people who had extra …

Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years, says WHO
2 years, 5 months ago

Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years, says WHO

The Hindu  

The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization. WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected with drug-resistant TB, 3% more than in 2020. WHO said many people went undiagnosed, noting that the number of people …

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report
2 years, 5 months ago

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Around 10.6 million people across the world were diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, while 1.6 million patients died of the bacterial disease, according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. Nearly 82% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia regions, with India alone …

WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years
2 years, 5 months ago

WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report Thursday by the World Health Organization. WHO also blamed COVID-19 for much of the rise in TB, saying the pandemic “continues to have a damaging impact on access to TB diagnosis and treatment.” …

Tuberculosis cases worldwide rise for the first time in years
2 years, 5 months ago

Tuberculosis cases worldwide rise for the first time in years

LA Times  

A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, on March 24, 2018. The WHO also blamed COVID-19 for much of the rise in TB, saying the pandemic “continues to have a damaging impact on access to TB diagnosis and treatment.” It said progress made before 2019 has …

Ending TB by 2025 needs more clinical research on drug resistance
2 years, 11 months ago

Ending TB by 2025 needs more clinical research on drug resistance

Hindustan Times  

Zainab, a child living in Mumbai, was two2 years old when she stopped gaining weight and started having fa ever. Research on DR-TB TB treatment must provide patients with treatment that includes shorter, well-tolerated combination of drugs that are adapted for administration to both adults and children. Research in this aspect will lead to robust scientific evidence for better and …

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease
3 years ago

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease

India TV News  

Highlights Avoid close contact with the person who has TB Practice good hygiene. Cover your mouth with your elbow while coughing or sneezing Healthcare personnel coming in contact with TB infected persons are at high risk of exposure Tuberculosis, commonly abbreviated to TB, is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Read: World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ayurvedic remedies …

Vaccine most effective to prevent TB: Study
5 years, 4 months ago

Vaccine most effective to prevent TB: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With preventive measures aimed at containing tuberculosis showing a less-than-encouraging response, scientists across the globe are of the firm opinion that the most effective way forward to combat the disease is in the use of vaccine. Findings reveal that only a miniscule two per cent of cases have benefitted in the last 100 years from the preventive measures. World …

Drug-resistant TB high in India, 5 lakh deaths a year
5 years, 5 months ago

Drug-resistant TB high in India, 5 lakh deaths a year

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The incidences of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, already a high in India by global standards, is increasing, as over five lakh new cases are identified each year. Telangana has 50,000 new cases of MDRT TB every year.” The ground reality is that 80 per cent of patients do not understand the concept of having to complete the TB treatment course. …

FDA approves tuberculosis drug that works on hard-to-treat cases
5 years, 7 months ago

FDA approves tuberculosis drug that works on hard-to-treat cases

LA Times  

The Food and Drug Administration has approved pretomanid to treat drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. U.S. regulators have approved a new tuberculosis medication that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases — a worsening problem in many poor countries. For the tens of thousands of people around the world who become infected with an extensively drug-resistant form of TB each …

One Little Girl Beat The Deadliest Form Of Tuberculosis. She Is Very Lucky.
8 years ago

One Little Girl Beat The Deadliest Form Of Tuberculosis. She Is Very Lucky.

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON ― When Baltimore resident Arjun kisses his 6-year-old daughter’s forehead, it’s not always just a sign of affection. Tuberculosis is the world’s biggest killer among infectious diseases, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ― or XDR-TB, which is resistant to the most effective treatment regimens available ― is the most dangerous form of the disease. It’s not something you can protect …

Will the New TB Drug For Kids Wipe Out the Deadly Disease?
9 years, 3 months ago

Will the New TB Drug For Kids Wipe Out the Deadly Disease?

The Quint  

A million children worldwide develop tuberculosis every year. The problem is that children with tuberculosis have to pop in the same pills as adults, and we all know how good kids are with large, metallic tasting medicines. As a result, 32,000 children across the world get the deadly superbugs, which make treatment tougher and are often fatal. What’s worse, the …

Will the New TB Drug For Kids Wipe Out the Deadly Disease?
9 years, 3 months ago

Will the New TB Drug For Kids Wipe Out the Deadly Disease?

The Quint  

A million children worldwide develop tuberculosis every year. The problem is that children with tuberculosis have to pop in the same pills as adults, and we all know how good kids are with large, metallic tasting medicines. As a result, 32,000 children across the world get the deadly superbugs, which make treatment tougher and are often fatal. What’s worse, the …

‘Child-friendly paediatric TB drugs will be a game changer’
9 years, 3 months ago

‘Child-friendly paediatric TB drugs will be a game changer’

The Hindu  

Treating young children afflicted by drug-sensitive TB disease will no longer be the same. India expects to roll out the new FDCs in a pilot project in 100 districts”, Dr. Cherise Scott, head of paediatric programs at TB Alliance, Geneva said in an email to The Hindu. “It is likely that cutting and crushing of adult pills could have contributed …

Return of the ‘White Plague’: Fears over the rise of ‘incurable’ TB
10 years, 10 months ago

Return of the ‘White Plague’: Fears over the rise of ‘incurable’ TB

CNN  

Vital Signs is a monthly program bringing viewers health stories from around the world. Story highlights Drug-resistant TB is on the rise, with some strains immune to all major drugs Extensively resistant TB reported in 92 countries but is likely to be in many more About 450,000 new drug-resistant TB cases reported worldwide in 2012 "It's probably in every country," …

One million TB cases in children annually
11 years ago

One million TB cases in children annually

The Hindu  

One million children aged below 15 years are annually diseased with tuberculosis across the world, notes a study published a few days ago in The Lancet. “It is certainly possible that the true numbers of children with both TB and MDR-TB will turn out to be higher than what we have estimated,” noted Dr. Mercedes C. Becerra from the Division …

‘Very few children in India are diagnosed and treated for MDR-TB’
11 years, 4 months ago

‘Very few children in India are diagnosed and treated for MDR-TB’

The Hindu  

“A child with TB as likely as an adult with TB to have MDR-TB,” notes the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013. that was released last month. “Very few children are diagnosed and treated for MDR-TB,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director of the Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis. Doctors think children can’t get infected with MDR-TB.” This is despite …

Childhood TB: epidemiology reveals two risk periods
11 years, 4 months ago

Childhood TB: epidemiology reveals two risk periods

The Hindu  

A body of evidence clearly points out that children aged under five years are at-risk group for getting infected with TB and developing disease very soon after infection. According to a 2006 paper in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, young children aged under one year run the greatest risk — 30 to 40 per cent risk …

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’
11 years, 4 months ago

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’

The Hindu  

With 8.6 million people across the world developing tuberculosis in 2012 and nearly 1.3 million succumbing to the disease, and with the number of people with multi-drug resistant TB and extremely-drug resistant TB increasing every year, the focus has been on increasing case-detection and improving treatment rates. Our study found: “In 95 studies from low- and middle-income settings, the prevalence …

Missing TB cases
11 years, 4 months ago

Missing TB cases

The Hindu  

Although tuberculosis killed 1.3 million people across the globe in 2012 and nearly 8.6 million developed the disease, the world is on track to reach some important targets of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. According to WHO’s global tuberculosis report 2013 released recently, the incidence rate has been falling, and the mortality rate since 1990 has been reduced by 45 …

Why the true burden of paediatric TB remains unknown
11 years, 4 months ago

Why the true burden of paediatric TB remains unknown

The Hindu  

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. After years of neglect, WHO in its recent report — Road map for childhood tuberculosis — has rightly pointed out saying: “the urgency of the problem of TB in children, whose full scope is still not fully known, cannot be underestimated.” In 2012, the global burden of …

Don’t ignore the children
11 years, 5 months ago

Don’t ignore the children

The Hindu  

After years of neglect, childhood tuberculosis — which accounts for over six per cent of the global TB burden — is finally getting due attention. Most often, all cases of extra-pulmonary TB go unreported even though this category of TB accounts for “approximately 20-30 per cent.” Unlike adolescents, children under five may not produce sputum for examination. Implementing the WHO’s …

Programme to prevent TB in children neglected
11 years, 5 months ago

Programme to prevent TB in children neglected

The Hindu  

The Revised National TB Control Programme that came into being in 1997 has to its credit some enviable accomplishments. “Children below six years have more chances of developing active TB after exposure and also more chances of developing severe disease,” Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director of the Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis noted in her email to this Correspondent. …

Drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB): Where do we go from here?
11 years, 10 months ago

Drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB): Where do we go from here?

The Hindu  

Tuberculosis or TB remains a significant health problem in Asia and Africa causing extensive human suffering and loss of life. It becomes difficult to treat XDR or extensively drug resistant TB where the bacteria become resistant not only to these two drugs but also injectable and other second-line drugs. Some of these include the limited availability of diagnosis and treatment …

A monster called drug-resistant tuberculosis
11 years, 11 months ago

A monster called drug-resistant tuberculosis

The Hindu  

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Multidrug resistant TB is caused by bacteria that do not respond to at least Isoniazid and Rifampicin, the most powerful, first line anti-TB drugs. Drug-resistant TB occurs when drugs are not properly taken, like incomplete treatment, wrong dosage, wrong length of treatment, wrong combination, unavailability of drugs or poor quality …

UK risks time bomb of untreatable TB as number of drug-resistant cases rises rapidly
12 years ago

UK risks time bomb of untreatable TB as number of drug-resistant cases rises rapidly

The Independent  

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A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
12 years, 7 months ago

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

NPR  

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Enlarge this image toggle caption Karin Schermbrucker/AP Karin Schermbrucker/AP Cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis are increasing around the globe, and at a faster rate than previously thought. "The TB epidemic is driven by the HIV epidemic," Dr. Eric Goemaere, with Doctors Without Borders in Cape Town, tells Shots. Sponsor Message In the township of Khayelitsha …

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
12 years, 7 months ago

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

NPR  

A Troubling Rise In Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Enlarge this image toggle caption Karin Schermbrucker/AP Karin Schermbrucker/AP Cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis are increasing around the globe, and at a faster rate than previously thought. "The TB epidemic is driven by the HIV epidemic," Dr. Eric Goemaere, with Doctors Without Borders in Cape Town, tells Shots. Sponsor Message In the township of Khayelitsha …

TB or not TB
12 years, 11 months ago

TB or not TB

The Hindu  

With tuberculosis killing two people every three minutes and the number of people with drug-resistant TB increasing manifold every passing day, even the reports of the first few patients being detected with “totally drug-resistant” tuberculosis — i.e., resistant to all first- and second-line TB drugs — in Mumbai in January did little to spur the government into acting decisively. Worse …

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India
13 years, 2 months ago

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India

NPR  

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India Enlarge this image toggle caption CDC CDC Tuberculosis specialists in India have diagnosed infections in a dozen patients in Mumbai that are unfazed by the three first-choice TB drugs and all nine second-line drugs. "The other TB challenge is diagnosis, especially of resistant strains, and here again the news is not …

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India
13 years, 2 months ago

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India

NPR  

TB That Resists All Drugs Is Found In India Enlarge this image toggle caption CDC CDC Tuberculosis specialists in India have diagnosed infections in a dozen patients in Mumbai that are unfazed by the three first-choice TB drugs and all nine second-line drugs. "The other TB challenge is diagnosis, especially of resistant strains, and here again the news is not …

Multidrug-resistant TB on the rise
13 years, 6 months ago

Multidrug-resistant TB on the rise

The Hindu  

Cases of tuberculosis resistant to a multitude of drug treatments are rising “at an alarming rate” across Europe, with an estimated 81,000 new cases every year, the World Health Organisation said in a report published Wednesday. The report Almost 12 per cent of newly diagnosed patients with TB have the multidrug-resistant form, as do 37 per cent of those who …

Tuberculosis in children: a call to action
13 years, 11 months ago

Tuberculosis in children: a call to action

The Hindu  

A severely malnourished young girl, about one and a half years old, was brought to the out-patient department of a busy teaching hospital with symptoms of fever, cough and lethargy for about 10 days. Worldwide, at least 1 million TB cases occur each year in children under 15 years of age, 75 per cent of these occur in 22 high …

More youngsters getting tuberculosis
17 years ago

More youngsters getting tuberculosis

Hindustan Times  

Stress, sleepless nights, smoking and crash diets have pushed up tuberculosis infection among urban 18-35 year olds. HT Image The WHO’s ‘Tuberculosis in the Southeast Asia Region 2008’ report released on Monday also shows that about one in three people in India have latent TB, which means they are infected but do not show symptoms because of a strong immunity. …

WHO warns drug-resistant TB growing-英语点津
17 years, 1 month ago

WHO warns drug-resistant TB growing-英语点津

China Daily  

WHO warns drug-resistant TB growing Download The World Health Organization warns multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is growing, as is the more deadly form of XDR-TB, or extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. A new report, which surveyed 90,000 tuberculosis patients in 81 countries between 2002 and 2006, records the highest rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis ever found. It raises the possibility that the epidemic …

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