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Macq, Jean, World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership
Executive Board, 146
Consejo Ejecutivo, 146
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Organización Mundial de la Salud
La tuberculosis sigue siendo una de las principales causas de morbilidad y mortalidad por enfermedades infecciosas en el mundo, estrechamente asociada a la pobreza, la vulnerabilidad y las desigualdades en el acceso a la atención sanitaria. Esta sinopsis presenta una evaluación c…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Egypt
Tuberculosis is still one of the major public health problems in the world. Countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region have been working hard for several years to promote directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) and reach the regional target of DOTS ALL OVER. National …
Seita, Akihiro
Tuberculosis is an important public health problem in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It is crucial for each country to develop a national tuberculosis surveillance system. WHO has developed a standardized tuberculosis surveillance system through which two important indicators …
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
The human face of tuberculosis in Sudan presents the untold story of those affected by tuberculosis in Sudan through compelling, graphic images. Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in the country with thousands of people dying annually of this completely preventable and…
Khalilzadeh, S., Boloorsaz, M.R., Safavi, A., Farnia, P., Velayati, A.A.
…is study determined the resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to 4 first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs in children with pulmonary tuberculosis at the Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases from 1999 to 2004. There were 350 children with po…
Alrajhi, A.A., Nematallah, A., Abdulwahab, S., Bukhary, Z.
Our study determined the rate of screening tuberculosis patients for HIV co-infection and the HIV seroprevalence among them. We retrospectively reviewed medical charts of 437 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis from 1995-2000 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Screening was done for 178 […
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Tuberculosis control can be effectively achieved if individuals with the disease receive adequate and timely treatment. The national tuberculosis control programmes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region are able to detect on average one third of smear-positive tuberculosis cases, w…
Gad, Ashry, Mandil, Ahmed M.A., Sherif, Aida A.R., Gad, Zahira M., Sallam, Sunny
Tuberculosis is an important reemerging disease with increasing global morbidity and mortality. Tuberculosis control is hindered by patient noncompliance with treatment regimens. To study compliance to antituberculosis drug regimens, 172 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis durin…
Mustafa, A.S., Abal, A.T., Chugh, T.D.
…e chain reactions to detect and differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from non-tuberculous mycobacteria was evaluated. The polymerase chain reactions differentiated between M. tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria when standard strains and clinical isolates of …
M.R. Kadivar, M.R., Ghaneh Shirazi, R., Khavandegaran, F., Karimi, M.
Rates of tuberculosis are high among migrants from high-incidence countries. This study determined the epidemiology of tuberculosis among Afghan immigrants in Fars province, southern Islamic Republic of Iran. From April 2000 to April 2002, all records were examined for new tuberc…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…Twelfth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis was held in Copenhagen on 19–20 February 2018. The objectives of the meeting were to: review the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Ad…
Salarri, M.H., Kalantari, A.B.
We determined the incidence of tuberculosis and some demographic characteristics among 604 patients in a 3-year period [1997-99] in Yazd province, Islamic Republic of Iran. The average annual rate of tuberculosis was 26.8 per 100 000 [22.9 in males and 31.0 per 100 000 in females…
Alaei, K., Alaei, A., Mansouri, D.
…ylaxis has a positive impact on the development of clinical tuberculosis. Due to the increased prevalence of tuberculosis among HIV-infected individuals, we evaluated the effect of INH on the prevention of clinical tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients. We administered 300 mg of …
Regional Committee for Africa, 57
The tuberculosis epidemic in the WHO African Region has reached emergency proportions.Based on recent surveillance data, the Region accounts for 25% of the global notified tuberculosiscases but only 10% of the world population. During the past ten years, tuberculosis notification…
Abdul Abbas, A.J., Al Delami, A.M., Yousif, T.K.
… three-staged prospective study involving 430 patients with tuberculosis was conducted at the Tuberculosis Institute, Baghdad during 1996-98. Of the 430 patients, 270 were males, 370 patients were diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis and 60 patients had extrapulmonary tuberculosis…
Dara, Masoud, Van den Boom, Martin, Hasanova, Sayohat, Mkrtchyan, Zaruhi
…e findings and recommendations of a WHO extensive review of tuberculosis prevention, control and care in Tajikistan conducted between 15 and 24 July 2013 at the request of the Minister of Health. The review was carried out by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the WHO country…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…fteenth Meeting of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control (TAG-TB) was held on 18–20 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Meeting was held virtually, allowing all participants to participate remotely. The objectives of the Meeting were to: 1) review …
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…review of the current position concerning the prevalence of tuberculosis showed that, despite the progress being made, TB remains a major problem in prisons in parts of Europe and for Europe as a whole. Urgently needed is for all those concerned, policy makers on public health an…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Tuberculosis control is a major public health challenge in complex emergencies. The aims of this publication are to provide guidance on the main tuberculosis control functions and activities in complex emergency settings and improve tuberculosis prevention and care measures. It i…