London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
1
Lucinda Ramos
1
Lunds Universitet
1
Lynn Bennett, Dilli Ram Dahal and Pav Govindasamy
1
M. Cheng
1
M. Dara, C. D. Acosta, M. V. S. Vinklers Melchers, et al.
1
M. Doara, D. Choroliani, P. de Colombani
1
M. Gogia
1
M. Lewis
1
M. Mansfeld
1
M. Mireku,M. Kiruki, R. McCollum, et al.
1
M. Munyeme and S. Malama
1
M. R. Jordan
1
M. Ristola
1
M. Schneider
1
M. Sologashvili
1
M.Gumede
1
M.M. Bailey, D. Bickford et al.
1
M.Revishvili
1
Mac-Seing, M.
1
MacQuarrie, K.L.
1
Madhukar Pai
1
Makanjuola, A. et al.
1
Malgosia Grzemska, Elizabeth Mathai
1
Malteser International
1
Mamdani M.
1
Management Sciences for Health
1
Mangwiro, TNC.
1
Manju Vatsa, Duangvadee Sungkhobol, Sudarshan Kumari, et al.
1
Mapako, Tonderai, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Maarten J. Postma, Marinus van Hulst, Janet Dzangare, Stellah Ngwende, John Mandisarisa, Ponesai Nyika, David A. Mvere, Owen Mugurungi, and Mufuta Tshimanga
1
Marie Theres Benner and K. Peter Schmitz
1
Martinez, L.
1
Mary Nambao, Wezi Kaonga, Yusuf Ahmed, et al.
1
Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International MCAI
1
Maternal Health Division Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India
1
Maxwell, J.
1
Mazigo, H.
1
MBC Public Health
1
McGuire, George
1
MCNV, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, and World Granny
1
MEASURE
1
MEASURE Evaluation
1
medical peace work
1
Meershoek A, Zwerling A, Daftary A, Citro B, Smyth C, Lewis D
1
Meike J. Schleif, Iain Aitken , et al.
1
Melissa Leach
1
Médecins Sans Frontière
1
Médecins Sans Frontières
1
Médecins sans Frontières MSF
1
Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Initiative
1
Ministry of Agricultur al Development (MOAD)
1
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India
1
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh
1
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India
1
Ministry of Health & Ministry of Local Government, Gabarone, Botswana
1
Ministry of Health & Social Welfare India
1
Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, Liberia
1
Ministry of Health (MoH), Malawi and ICF International
1
Ministry of Health and Child Welfare,Zimbabwe
1
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
1
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate-General of Health Services, Mycobacterial Disease Control, National Tuberculosis Control Programme
1
Ministry of Health and Ministry of Industry, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
1
Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Health, Nepal
1
Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone,
1
Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
1
Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) & Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MOEAC)
1
Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia
1
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW), Kingdom of Lesotho
1
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar es Salaam, Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, National Bureau of Statistics, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and ICF International
1
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia
1
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Republic of Liberia
1
Ministry Of Health Community, Development,Gender, Elderly And Children, the United Republic Of Tanzania
1
Ministry of Health Rwanda
1
Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
1
Ministry of Health, Gabarone, Botswana
1
Ministry of Health, Government of Kenya
1
Ministry of Health, Government of Liberia
1
Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Lesotho
1
Ministry of Health, Liberia
1
Ministry of Health, Republic of Kenya
1
Ministry of Health, Uganda
1
Ministry of Rural Development
1
Misereor
1
Mohan P. Joshi Malaïka Ludman Dan Kibuule, et al.
1
Monde, N.
1
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
1
Mortimer, K.
1
Mphande, M.
1
MSH, USAID
1
Mshelbwala, P.
1
Mukhtar A Adeiza, Abdullah A Abba, Juliana U Okpapi
1
Mumbo, AA.
1
Murphy, J.P.
1
Mursaleena Islam
1
Mücke, H.
1
N. Gebreselassie , C. Lienhardt, L. Anderson et al.
The SPPCHS project worked with the Ministry of Home Affairs to design a peer education program for prisons to provide knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in prisons. AIDSFree held two training of trainers (TOT) in Dodoma to train 55 prison officers from 2...6 prison facilities to train prison staff and inmates on the new peer education program. more
2nd edition.
Like the original, this second edition of the guidance aims to inform the revision of existing national guidelines and standards for managing Tuberculosis (TB), many of which include guidance on children. It includes recommendations, based on the best available evidence, for improving ...the management of children with TB and of children living in families with TB. National and regional TB control programmes may wish to adapt these recommendations according to local circumstancesmore
The consolidated guidelines are expected to provide the basis and rationale for the development of national guidelines for LTBI management, adapted to the national and local epidemiology of TB, the availability of resources, the health infrastructure and other national and local determinants. The gu...idelines are to be used primarily in national TB and HIV control programmes, or their equivalents in ministries of health, and for other policy-makers working on TB and HIV and infectious diseases. They are also appropriate for officials in other line ministries with work in the areas of health.more
6 July 2021. Three new nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) classes are endorsed by WHO and included.
The latest operational handbook includes the new classes recommended by WHO. It aims at facilitating the implementation of the WHO recommendations by the Member States, technical partners, and ot...hers involved in managing patients with TB and DR-TB. The operational handbook provides practical information on existing and new tests recommended by WHO, step-by-step advice on implementing and scale-up testing to achieve local and national impact and lastly, model diagnostic algorithms, which are updated to incorporate the latest recommendations. An overview of budgetary considerations and information sheets on each of the newly recommended tests is provided.more
The aim of the people-centred framework is to help countries to develop fully prioritized and budgeted NSPs based on a culture of making full use of the available data, which are aligned with national planning cycles and which provide the basis for a robust national response that can accelerate prog...ress towards the goal of ending TB. In addition, applying the framework for other possible applications according to the country’s planning and policy cycle encourages the culture of data utilization and evidence translation into decision making and planning. more
The WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment is the companion, implementation guide to the 2020 WHO guidelines on TB preventive treatment.[1] Just as these guidelines are the first to be released under the rubric of the WHO consolidated TB guidelines, this handbook... will be the first in a modular series of practical guides meant for the implementers of various aspects of the programmatic management TB.more
The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.
...
The 2022 edition of the report is as usual, based primarily on data gathered by WHO from national ministries of health in annual rounds of data collection. In 2022, 202 countries and territories with more than 99% of the world’s population and TB cases reported datamore
The Region of the Americas comprises 46 countries and territories and Brazil and Peru are among the WHO high- TB burden
countries. T o illustrate the recent increase in TB incidence in the region, we selected 12 countries from Latin America (Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador..., Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela), which account for approximately 80% of the total estimated TB cases in the region.more
M. SlutskerACTION global health advocacy partnership; ACTION partner oranizations
(2016)
C2
From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working
“The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than
it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV
every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that
TB d...oesn’t have to be a death sentence for people living with HIV, but we need
more action. By joining forces, the HIV and TB community can finally give this
deadly issue the attention it deserves.”
– Mike Podmore, Director STOPAIDSmore
This is an update of a seven-year TB and Leprosy national strategic plan (TBL-NSP), which extends from 2013 to 2020. The update focuses on the plan covering from 2017-20 and is based on the 2017 external mid-term programme review key findings and recommendations; the global and national End TB strat...e-gies and targets; stakeholders consultation and recent revision of the national TB guidelines.more
This analysis focused on the chronic form of HAT caused by T. b. gambiense, as it contributes to the majority of disease burden. Information from the literature review,
product development landscape, and stakeholder interviews was compiled to:
- Identify use cases and understand current diagnosti...c practices and tools associated with each use case.
- Analyze progress toward robust diagnostics for HAT across different biomarkers.
- Develop recommendations for steps to improve the availability, access, and adoption of HAT diagnostic tools.more
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements in disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence of a CHW programme. In this study, we evaluated expan...ding an existing HIV and tuberculosis (TB) disease-specific CHW programme into a polyvalent, household-based model that subsequently included non-communicable diseases (NCDs), malnutrition and TB screening, as well as family planning and antenatal care (ANC).
Methods: We conducted a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in Neno District, Malawi. Six clusters of approximately 20 000 residents were formed from the catchment areas of 11 healthcare facilities. The intervention roll-out was staggered every 3 months over 18 months, with CHWs receiving a 5-day foundational training for their new tasks and assigned 20–40 households for monthly (or more frequent) visits.
Findings: The intervention resulted in a decrease of approximately 20% in the rate of patients defaulting from chronic NCD care each month (−0.8 percentage points (pp) (95% credible interval: −2.5 to 0.5)) while maintaining the already low default rates for HIV patients (0.0 pp, 95% CI: −0.6 to 0.5). First trimester ANC attendance increased by approximately 30% (6.5pp (−0.3, 15.8)) and paediatric malnutrition case finding declined by 10% (−0.6 per 1000 (95% CI −2.5 to 0.8)). There were no changes in TB programme outcomes, potentially due to data challenges.more
Because of the limited access to more powerful diagnostic tools, there is a paucity of data regarding the burden of fungal infections in Burkina Faso. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of serious fungal infections in this sub-Saharan country. We primarily used the na...tional demographic data and performed a PubMed search to retrieve all published papers on fungal infections from Burkina Faso and its surrounding West African countries. Considering the prevalence of HIV infection (0.8% of the population) and a 3.4% incidence of cryptococcosis in hospitals, it is estimated that 459 patients per year develop cryptococcosis. For pneumocystosis, it is suggested that 1013 new cases occur every year. Taking into account the local TB frequency (population prevalence at 0.052%), we estimate the prevalence of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis at 1120 cases. Severe forms of asthma with fungal sensitization and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis are estimated to affect 7429 and 5628 cases, respectively. Vulvovaginal candidiasis may affect 179,000 women, and almost 1,000,000 children may suffer from tinea capitis. Globally, we estimate that roughly 1.4 million people in Burkina Faso (7.51% of the population) suffer from a serious fungal infection. These data should be used to drive future epidemiological studies, diagnostic approaches, and therapeutic strategies.more
The Creditor Reporting System was analysed for official development assistance funding disbursements towards TB control in 11 conflict-affectedstates, 17 non-conflict-affected fragile states and 38 comparable non-fragile states. The amounts of funding, funding relative to burden, funding relative to... malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) control, disbursements relative to commitments, sources of funding as well as funding activities were extracted and analysed.more
Previous advocacy efforts have achieved tangible goals in terms garnering political commitments
to increase financing for TB—as seen at the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting on TB. The challenge
now is to ensure that these commitments are actually met within a global biomedical research
ecosystem that... is designed and incentivized to prioritize the health needs of wealthy populationsmore
This handbook builds on lessons learned from surveys implemented 2015-2017 and advice provided by the Global task force on TB patient cost surveys. It provides a standardized methodology for conducting health facility-based cross-sectional surveys to assess the direct and indirect costs incurred by ...TB patients and their households. In addition, it provides recommendations on results dissemination, engaging across sectors in policy dialogue and enabling action and related research for effective modifications in care delivery models, in patient support, and wider cross-sectoral interventions.more
An evaluation of WFP’s operation. Evaluation Report
The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) main components include: relief assistance; food assistance for assets (FFA); nutrition support to women, children and HIV/TB patients; school feeding (SF) and capacity building. The evalua...tion scope covers the design phase and all activities up to this evaluation (January 2013-September 2016). Since the PRRO was extended through December 2017, the purpose is not as a final evaluation, but to provide results on achievements that can inform current and future operations
more
About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to have been infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacilli, and about 5–10% of those infected develop TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’s im...munological status. TB preventive treatment (TPT) given to people at highest risk of progressing from TB infection to disease remains a critical element to achieve the global targets of the End TB Strategy, as reiterated by the second UN High Level Meeting on TB in 2023. Delivering TPT effectively and safely necessitates a programmatic approach to implement a comprehensive package of interventions along a cascade of care: identifying individuals at highest risk, screening for TB and ruling out TB disease, testing for TB infection, and choosing the preventive treatment option that is best suited to an individual, managing adverse events, supporting medication adherence and monitoring programmatic performancemore