WHO strategy to stop drug-resistant TB
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More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop the growing problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday.
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Extremely drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis could spark a "practically uncontrollable" epidemic among HIV/AIDS sufferers in areas like Africa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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Super drug-resistant forms of  tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and  only small changes are needed to help them spread quickly, U.S.  researchers predicted Sunday.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Bank spent less than 1 percent of its global health money last year on tuberculosis control, despite the growing numbers of AIDS patients in Africa who are dying from tuberculosis, according to a report issued yesterday. The report, by a nonprofit advocacy group, called on the institution to greatly increase efforts to fight the highly contagious ...
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that despite new research indicating some resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its âdrug of choiceâ for protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu pandemic.
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New tests show that the multiple-drug-resistant TB is still dangerous, but susceptible to more drug treatments.
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
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A "virtually untreatable" form of TB has emerged, according to the World Health Organization.
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Scientists say people traveling to Africa from Southeast Asia and South America should be screened and treated for drug-resistant malaria.
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Adding a new antibiotic to the standard mix of drugs used to treat tuberculosis could shave at least two months off the current grueling six-month regimen, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Tuberculosis will kill millions in developing countries unless radical action is taken, an aid organisation has warned.
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The W.H.O. plan calls for the creation and improvement of laboratories to detect and monitor drug-resistant cases throughout the world.
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Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but under a new mechanism aimed at ensuring developing nations get access to vaccines, the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
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As many as half a million lives could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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The evidence is in: we can stop diseases like malaria and TB from killing millions of people each year.
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[Health India]: New York, Dec 14 : A promising and possibly the most potent tuberculosis (TB) drug in 40 years is soon to be tested on patients of the disease that kills over two million people every year.