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Advice on treatment in Indonesia
Dear Arifin, May I suggest that collaboration with the NTP doing the standard treatment be the process for proceeding with the MDR-TB program in…
Questions about Sputum Conversion for MDR-TB Patients
Most culture positive TB patients will need considerably less than 6 months to become culture negative if properly treated. Even when MDR. But in a…
Access Instructions for MDR-TB treatment outcomes
Dear Sidney, Thanks for your comments. I had ever run the software of MS Access 2003, and it worked smoothly. I am very interested in your magical…
community MDR TB models
In addition, I would like to share excerpts from a post by Shelly Batra, MD, on Operation ASHA's work bringing treatment for tuberculosis to…
Emergency Update 2008: Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (World Health Organization - WHO)
Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: emergency update 2008 provides updated guidelines and recommendations on…
Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme: Revised Schemes for NGOs and Private Providers (Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, India)
The Central TB Division conducted a three day Consultation on Revision of NGO/PP Guidelines in January 2008 in Delhi to improve the collaboration with…
Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: online presentation for clinicians and health care professionals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC)
This slide presentation with streaming audio provides information to strengthen the understanding of the current epidemiology and treatment principles…
Molecular Line Probe Assays for rapid Screening of Patients at risk of multidrug-resistant (World Health Organization - WHO)
Conventional methods for mycobacteriological culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) are slow and cumbersome, requiring sequential procedures…
Molecular methods for TB drug resistance testing: what is needed? Experience from Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa (Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Public Health - Burnet Institute)
Khayelitsha is a peri-urban township with a population of 0.5 million. The antenatal HIV prevalence is ~30%, with about 10,000 patients started on…
Conference on Tuberculosis in the Korean Peninsula and Global Health, Nov. 25 (Harvard University Asia Center)
For members in the US (Cambridge, MA) on Tuesday, November 25, 2008: this conference will take place at from 9am to 1:15pm at Harvard University,…
