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Vitek, Erika, Stillo, Jonathan, Ruesh-Gerdes, Sabine, Ramis, Oriol, Popa, Cristian, et al.
…ng the WHO European Region’s 18 high-priority countries for tuberculosis (TB) control and among the world’s 27 high multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) burden countries. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ranks the Republic of Moldova second among 110 countries b…
Meeting of National Tuberculosis Programme Managers, World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Tuberculosis (TB) control in some countries of Europe requires urgent attention. Drug-resistant TB is increasing rapidly. In parts of eastern and central Europe economic decline, poverty, prison overcrowding and fractured medical services mean that TB rates are increasing and mul…
Meeting of National Tuberculosis Programme Managers (4th: 2000 : Helsinki, Finland), World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Tuberculosis (TB) control in parts of Europe requires urgent action. Drug-resistant TB is increasing rapidly. In parts of central and eastern Europe, economic decline, poverty, overcrowded prisons and fractured medical services mean that TB rates are increasing and multidrug-resi…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Tuberculosis (TB) and particularly drug-resistant TB continue to represent major public health threats in the WHO European Region. This document details the Tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2023–2030 as well as its monitoring and evaluation framework and outli…
Regional Committee for Africa, 60
1. Tuberculosis (TB) is a high-priority disease in the WHO African Region. The Global TBControl Report 20091 shows that, in 2007, the African Region, which accounted for an estimated12% of the world population, contributed 22% of notified TB cases. Case notification rates haveinc…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…lescents infected with or having active multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is needed. The aim of this publication is to guide Member States in the WHO European Region to adequately address child and adolescent MDR-TB at the highest quality. All measures should be integrate…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…Regional Collaborating Committee on Accelerated Response to Tuberculosis, HIV and viral Hepatitis, (RCC-THV), organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, took place online on 10 December 2020. RCC-THV serves as a regional platform for the 50 Member States in the WHO European…
World Health Organization
The global burden of tuberculosis infection and the need to prevent progression to active disease highlight the importance of generating robust and policy-relevant evidence for tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT). This guidance presents a structured framework to support the g…
Morsi, M.G., Youssef, R.M., Khalil, Y.M.
A total of 45 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 45 healthy individuals were subjected to chest examination, radiography and ELISA tests for IgA and IgG antibodies. Sputum smear and culture were performed for all tuberculous patients. Evaluated against clinical and radiolog…
Mirsaeidi, S.M., Masjedi, M.R., Mansouri, S.D., Velayati, A.A.
Nearly 18% of tuberculosis [TB] cases have only extrapulmonary manifestations. Breast tuberculosis is a rare type of extrapulmonary TB. This paper reports 4 cases of breast TB confirmed either pathologically or mycobacteriologically or both. These reports showed that TB should al…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…e and varied. To the east, rates of HIV (and HIV-associated tuberculosis) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are climbing, health systems remain frail, surveillance and laboratory services are underresourced, and in places political commitment is inadequate. To the wes…
Gillini, L., Seita, A.
Tuberculosis [TB] is an important public health problem in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization. Every year the disease kills 136,000 people and affects 630,000 more. HIV is the most significant risk factor for progression from subclinical infection w…
World Health Organization
…ion (CAD) software for interpreting digital chest X-rays in tuberculosis (TB) screening among individuals aged 15 years and older. The document responds to the growing availability of CAD technologies and the need for evidence-based guidance to support countries, implementers and…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
The European Tuberculosis Research Initiative (ERI-TB) was launched by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 2016 to advance tuberculosis (TB) research in the WHO European Region. It was intended as a platform to build the capacity of Member States of the WHO European Region to i…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…reatment regimens (mSTR) for multidrug/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in the 13 WHO European Region countries involved; present the preliminary findings from the regional mSTR cohort; discuss the data quality for the regional mSTR cohort and plan steps for its improvement; int…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
… a conference and workshop on “Addressing ethical issues in tuberculosis programmes with a special focus on social determinants” in Athens, from 10 to 12 May 2010. The objectives of the meeting were:i) to raise awareness of ethical issues in tuberculosis (TB), with a focus on soc…
Noorbakhsh, S., Mousavi, J., Barati, M., Shamshiri, A.R., Shekarabi, M., et al.
…lose contact with immunocompetent cases of proven pulmonary tuberculosis. After 1 year follow-up 10 subjects had progressed to tuberculosis disease and received treatment; TST was positive in 30% and QTB in 100%. Of the 49 non-progressive subjects, TST was positive in 10.4% and Q…
Regional Committee for Africa, 59
…tion, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest burden ofHIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the world. At its fifty-third session in 2003, the WHORegional Committee for Africa adopted a resolution on scaling up AIDS, tuberculosis and malariainterventions.1 The resolution recognized t…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
The National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) of Albania recently received an HIV/TB grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the Albanian Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MoHSP) is the principal recipient of the grant. The MoHSP has an agreement w…
Kronfol, N.M., Mansour, Z.
In the past decade, the number of new cases of tuberculosis worldwide has barely declined and national tuberculosis control and elimination programmes in many high-income countries worldwide are increasingly challenged to address the problem of disease in foreign-born residents a…
de Colombani, Pierpaolo, Veen, Jaap
Ukraine has the second-highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the WHO European Region. In February 2010, the Minister of Health asked WHO to review the National Tuberculosis Programme and make recommendations that could be used to help develop the Programme plan for 2012–2016. On…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…Regional Collaborating Committee on Accelerated Response to Tuberculosis, HIV and viral Hepatitis (RCC-THV), organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, took place online on 15 February 2022. The RCC-THV serves as a regional platform for the 53 Member States in the WHO Europ…
Saeed, K.M.I., Bano, R., Asghar, R.J.
Aighanistan has 2 tuberculosis surveillance systems/ the Natiohal Tuberculosis Control Programme [NTP] and the Health Management Information System [HMIS]. An evaluation of these surveillance systems in January/February 2010 was done to identify their strengths and weaknesses and…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…h Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) and the previous TAG-TB meeting.TAG-TB congratulated WHO/Europe and European Member States for their effective actions which have resulted in a decreasing trend of TB incidence rates across many co…
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
This report provides an overview of the latest tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological situation and is published jointly by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. In 2022, a little over 170 000 incident TB cases were notified in …