10–11 May 2016, Catania, Italy
Report of a mission 20–24 April 2015
Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of
risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the differen...ce in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by country and WHO-reported TB burden, (ii) the possible impact of screening thresholds on sensitivity, and (iii) the value of WHO-estimated TB burden to improve the prediction accuracy of screening yield.
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
Volume 2015, Article ID 752709, 7 pages
Rev Panam Salud Publica 45, 2021 |
A practical tool to help health workers in the clinical and operational management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with special focus on the introduction, implementation and management of the nine-month treatment regimen.
Rapport final de Knowledge for Health (Connaissances pour la Santé).
Le présent rapport donne les principaux résultats issus de l’analyse ...pan class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">de la situation menée par le Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Santé en Santé de la Reproduction (CEFOREP), en collaboration avec FHI, dans les régions de Dakar (Niveau Central, District Nord, District de Pikine et District de Mbao), Kaolack (District de Kasnack) et Saint-Louis (District de Saint-Louis). Il passe en revue les questions concernant la gestion de l’information en santé, les besoins en information, les outils et technologies utilisés, le niveau d’accès aux infrastructures de communication en santé ainsi que le fonctionnement des réseaux professionnels existants. Le rapport relate aussi les questions concernant l’utilisation de la planification familiale, avant de déboucher sur des recommandations.
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Lancet Infect Dis 2022;
22: 222–4
HIV infection, due to the immunosuppressant that leads, nowadays constitutes an aggravating factor of endemic tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a huge burden to human health, even in the early 21st... century. The situation is deteriorating in many countries, particularly because of the synergy with the HIV epidemic and the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. The urgent development of new tools that can improve the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis and other major mycobacterium diseases depends largely on the progress of basic and applied research. Faced with this situation, there is an urgent need for effective strategies and actions to permanently solve the problem of this endemic disease whose impact is too negative on people’s lives.
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases 32 (2015) 111–117