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WEBWebinar Series Videos. 2024/03/18 A closer look at the Global TB Report. COVID-19 vaccine • Get the latest information from the CDC. 18 March 2024: A closer look at the Global TB Report: This is the twelfth installment of the TB Think Tank Webinar Series taking place on a monthly basis. The session presents A closer look at the Global TB …

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Report Review of the TB Module in TIER.Net in three South …

WEBPage 5 of 64 Executive Summary The South African National TB Think Tank commissioned this review of the TB Module in TIER.Net in 2020. The main purpose of this independent review, carried out by the Health

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A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among drug

WEBA systematic review of risk factors for mortality among drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB patients in South Africa (2010 – 2018) March 2019 Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health,

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NATIONAL T RE OVERY PLAN

WEB5 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. GLOBAL BURDEN OF TB Globally, there were an estimated 9.9 million people with TB in 2020, of whom only 5.8 million were notified. TB notification declined from 7.1 million in 2019, reversing the trend of the previous two years.

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IMPEDIMENTS AND FACILITATORS OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB) …

WEBAcknowledgements Special thanks to the participants (health workers and patients) and the Department of Health in each of the four districts. This project was funded by the South African TB Think Tank, itself funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates

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GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF THE LIPOARABINOMANNAN …

WEB3 | P a g e OUT-PATIENTS: By contrast, for out-patients (ambulatory patients seen in clinics and day hospitals, including ART initiation clinics) LF-LAM should only be performed when: (i) TB is suspected based on

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NATIONAL T RE OVERY PLAN 2.0 APRIL 2023 MARCH 2024

WEB6 1.3. THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON TB TESTING AND CASE-FINDING Figure 2: Trends in the number of Xpert tests conducted, positive tests and percentage testing positive, January 2020 – April 2023 (NICD) The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a significantly higher month-on-month decline in TB testing and in

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SADC TB Status & Response to Cross Border TB

WEBThe SADC Heads of State and Government Declaration on TB in the Mining Sector (Maputo, 2012) Arose from recognition of disproportionately high TB and TB/HIV burden in the mining sector, was aimed at scaling up regionwide responses to key contributory factors to the TB explosion in the mining sector, notably: Eliminating occupational and

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ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH Opportunities from a new disease …

WEB1160 December 2020, Vol. 110, No. 12 ACTICE In January 2020, SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19 disease, was isolated in Wuhan City, China.[1,2] By March 2020, as countries throughout the world reported increasing cases, the World Health

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WEBNational Tuberculosis Management Guidelines 2014 5 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AFB Acid-Alcohol Fast Bacilli AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ART Antiretroviral Therapy BCG Bacille Calmette - Guérin CBO Community Based Organisation CHW Community Health Worker COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease CPT …

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POLICY BRIEF: mHealth for TB in South Africa

WEBCollaboration and co-ordination While several innovative solutions have been developed in South Africa some of which have been pilot tested, there is very little knowledge exchange or sharing of lessons learnt.

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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

WEBBackground South Africa is one of eight countries that collectively account for two thirds of the world TB disease burden. The annual TB incidence in 2019 was estimated to be 615/100 000.

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