1999 World TB Day
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is on the rise and there are 8 million new cases of TB every year. TB remains the single biggest killer of young women and kills as many women as all combined causes
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is on the rise and there are 8 million new cases of TB every year. TB remains the single biggest killer of young women and kills as many women as all combined causes
Shri K.J. Mehta TB Hospital in Amadgadh has collaborated with the Gujarat government in eradicating TB and raising the societal health
Despite the introduction of the National TB Programme over 40 years ago, TB has not yet been controlled in South Asia, says the report presented by the SAARC Tuberculosis Center (STC) at the Eleventh
The killer disease of tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing countries where about 32 per cent of the population are infected by TB bacilli. Bangladesh
Pakistan will be observing World TB Day on March 24 in the backdrop of fact that it has the sixth highest TB burden globally and also accounts 44 per cent of the disease in the Eastern Mediterranean
In a bid to reduce the default rate, the Chennai Corporation has modified its approach to the Direct Observed Treatment Short Course therapy for TB patients in the city. With the focus on World TB
The Uttar Pradesh state government has decided to implement the project of Tuberculosis (TB) control in 31 districts from next month. The state government has launched TB Control Programme in the
Medical experts criticized the government for its failure to check the spread of TB. They said that the DOTS programme for TB eradication started by the government has failed and stressed the
Tuberculosis (TB) infects 80 lakh and kills an estimated 20 lakh people each year, which is more than 5000 deaths per day. Three- quarters of TB victims are in the most economically productive age
Pakistan has submitted a proposal to the Global Fund Against TB and Malaria (GFATM) to control HIV/ AIDS, TB and Malaria through community involvement using the Basic Development Needs (BDN) concept.
How did tuberculosis cease to be a deadly killer in the West?
An estimated $10 28 billion is frittered away due to lost productivity, illness and death
Pakistan ranks fifth among countries most severely affected by tuberculosis in the world. This was stated by the country's director-general health services Ahsan Ahmed at an international
The contagious TB bacillus, present in a state of dormancy in many of us, is raising its ugly head again, upsetting all the currently practised modes of stopping it
Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug resistant traits, play havoc across boundaries
<p>Bhutan will soon start implementing the largest Climate Change Adaptation project in the World funded through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) which is administered by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with an investment of US $ 11,491,200 (Nu. 712,454,400). .Read more in this April 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bhutan.</p>
Scientists at the Jammu laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have found a Himalayan herb, which can considerably increase the absorption of tuberculosis (TB) drugs
declining fertility
<p>With release of genetically modified Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation Bangladesh is first country in the South Asia to cultivate any genetically modified food crop. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Those who have had fewer respiratory diseases when young are the ones who are more susceptible to asthma