26 August 2021 | Geneva – A rapid communication released by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme has announced important updates to guidance on the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents. …
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Stop TB Partnership launches 2021 Kochon Prize call for nominations
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a catastrophic impact worldwide on the most vulnerable communities affected by TB, posing unprecedented challenges to national TB responses and setting critical progress back …
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Interim Guidance for Continuing HIV Program Service Delivery During COVID-19 Pandemic
Overview The National Center for National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) has updated it’s guideline on Interim Guidance for Continuing HIV Program Service Delivery During COVID-19 Pandemic. The …
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TB testing in 2020 dropped drastically due to COVID-19
GENEVA – On World Tuberculosis Day, new data shows the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the fight against another deadly airborne disease: tuberculosis. Global Fund surveys in 13 …
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World Tuberculosis Day 2021: The Clock Is Ticking
Introduction World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly …
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#EndTB Webinar WHO TB Policy Guidance Outlook for 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 16 March 2021 to provide an overview of planned updates to WHO TB policy guidance in 2021, promote an exchange of views …
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WHO Guidelines for Malaria (Consolidated Guidelines for Malaria)
WHO launches a consolidated guidelines for malaria. The consolidated WHO Guidelines for malaria present all of the current WHO recommendations for malaria. This guideline bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria …
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Call for participants: Virtual consultation on capacity building of youth to end TB
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme is inviting young people aged 15-34 to join an online consultation to contribute to the development of a special training course to …
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WHO announces updated critical concentrations for susceptibility testing for rifampicin
5 February 2021 | GENEVA – The critical concentrations for culture-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) to first-line anti-TB drugs have been revised by the the World Health Organization (WHO). Critical concentrations …
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WHO announces updated definitions of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
27 January 2021 | GENEVA – The definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been revised by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global TB Programme, who have also defined pre-XDR-TB for the …
