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Rwanda 21-25 July 2014: Epidemiological review and impact analysis of tuberculosis in Rwanda

Klinkenberg, E KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION (2014) C2

Information Sheet on Lung Health & TB in Africa

National Istitute for Health Research (2019) CC2

Globally, it is estimated that 1 billion people suffer from acute and chronic respiratory conditions, making them major causes of illness and death. Although there is a relative lack of data and evidence on lung diseases beyond tuberculosis (TB) in ... more

Integrating the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexual and reproductive health programmes

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO document "Integrating the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and sexual and reproductive health programmes: implementation guidance" provides a framework for integrating noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) into existing health programs for HIV/AIDS, tub... more

Communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa in 2021/22

World Health Organization Africa Region; WHO Africa World Health Organization Africa Region; WHO Africa (2023) C_WHO

This report is one of the first major products of the newly established Precision Public Health Metrics unit of the UCN cluster of the WHO Regional Office for Africa. The report presents national trends in communicable and non-communicable disease <... and control in the WHO African region. It tracks progress made with respect to disease burden reduction, elimination and eradication. It also highlights major emerging threats, opportunities and priorities in the fight against commu- nicable and non-communicable diseases in the region. It covers the period 2000-2022, but for some indicators, information is available only up to 2021. The report shows the number of reported cases for malaria and vaccine preventable diseases (meningitis, measles, yellow fever, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and polio); disease incidence due to HIV, tuberculosis and four major noncommunicable diseases (cardiovas- cular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respira- tory diseases). more

Policy options to mitigate a drop in fiscal space for health and HIV following the COVID-19 pandemic — Case studies from DR Congo, Jamaica and Lesotho

UNAIDS UNAIDS (2021) CC

To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and HIV expenditure, UNAIDS carried out a modelling study on fiscal space for health and HIV. From a sample of 28 countries, three countries—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jamaica, and Lesotho—were selected to capture health and HIV ... more

TB in India: burden, progress and needs

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Central Tuberculosis Division Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2012) C1

Use of high burden country lists for TB by WHO in the post-2015 era

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Discussion paper initially prepared in April 2015 to facilitate feedback, and finalized after the June 2015 meeting of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB (STAG-TB).

Integration of childhood TB into guidelines for the management of acute malnutrition in high burden countries

L. N. Patel,and A. K. Detjen The Union (2017) C2

Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115

Epidemiological review of TB disease in Sierra Leone

L. Anderson and E. Hamblion World Health Organisation (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Burden sharing or burden shifting? - HIV and TB

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (2019) C1

MSF provides treatment for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in more than 20 countries around the world. The report Burden sharing or burden shifting? How... more

National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease Orogram Tuberculosis (TB) Isolation Policy

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2018) C1

Apart from implementation of TB infection Prevention and Control measures, treatment of those with active TB of the lungs is key in preventing the spread of the ... bacilli. The Public Health Act CAP 242, section 17 classify TB as notifiable infectious disease and under section 26 as part of prevention and control of infectious diseases, those exposed or suffer from the notifiable infectious diseases should be isolated in designated place and detained while taking medication until in the assessment of the Medical officer of health confirm that the person is free from infection or able to be discharged without danger to public health. more

Findings from othe Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), The Lancet (2019) CC

This booklet provides an overview of all findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. Published in The Lancet in November 2018, GBD 2017 provides for the first time an independent estimati... more

Trend analysis of cardiovascular disease mortality, incidence, and mortality-to-incidence ratio: results from global burden of disease study 2017

Amini, M.; Zayeri, F.; Salehi, M. BioMed Central (2021) CC

Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the global leading causes of concern due to the rising prevalence and consequence of mortality and disability with a heavy economic burden. The objective of the current study was to analyze the t... more

Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

GBD2019 Dementia Forecasting Coolaborators (2022) CC

Lancet Public health 2022 January 6, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(21)00249-8 Growth in the number of individuals living with dementia underscores the need for public health planning efforts and policy to address the needs of this group. Country-level estimates can be used to inform nati... more