UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who release...d the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
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Information for policy-makers and planners on conducting deworming as part of an integrated
school health program
The Abuja declaration identifies that the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and related infectious diseases must come with additional financial resources. Therefore, African governments agreed on setting the target of allocating at least 15 per cent of each country’s annual budget ...to the improvement of the health sector. Moreover, the declaration demands donor countries to assist by fulfilling the target of delivering official development assistance (ODA) in the amount of 0.7 per cent of gross national product (GNP).
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Expert opinion of the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative core group members for the WHO European Region.
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn...ostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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Global Fund Investment Guidance for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Accessed: 29.09.2019
Research Article
BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12:262; doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-262
Current Issüs Arising from Tuberculosis Screening with Interferon-Gamma- Release Assays (IGRAs)
Pneumologie 2015; 69: 271–275
Frontiers in Pediatrics | www.frontiersin.org
1 April 2019 | Volume 7 | Article 159
European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care 2017 Estonian Version