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78th UN session: WHO demands health priority from world leaders

September 13, 2023

The WHO said the world faces multiple humanitarian and climate-related crises which are threatening lives and livelihoods around the world Ahead of the 78th...

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Gandhinagar Declaration: WHO member states unite to end Tuberculosis by 2030

August 18, 2023

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The declaration was formalized at the conclusion of a two-day ministerial meeting titled ‘Sustain, Accelerate, and Innovate to end TB in the South-East...

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Female Genital Tuberculosis: All you need to know about this less known form of TB

August 4, 2023

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Genital TB often goes undetected and diagnosis remains a challenge despite being the third most common site for TB infection, after the lungs and lymph nodes...

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‘COVID-19 brought realization of scale of NTDs, but also obscured them’

July 12, 2023

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Dr Kishor Wasan is a Co-Director and Co-Founder, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia. He is credited with developing an...

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‘Tuberculosis can affect everybody, as like COVID it’s an airborne disease’

May 29, 2023

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Dr Suvanand Sahu is the Deputy Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, a global partnership committed to eliminating Tuberculosis as a public health...

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Tuberculosis emerges as key global health priority at World Health Assembly

May 26, 2023

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Prior to the global health crisis triggered by COVID-19, tuberculosis ranked as the deadliest infectious disease worldwide The Seventy-sixth World Health...

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Obscured by COVID-19 pandemic, Tuberculosis deaths rose globally

March 30, 2023

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The estimated number of deaths from the disease rose from 1·5 million in 2020 to 1·6 million in 2021, reversing years of decline between 2005 and 2019...

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What is Bedaquiline, the tuberculosis drug that goes off-patent in July

March 27, 2023

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The Indian Patent Office has denied Johnson and Johnson’s request to extend the patent on a crucial tuberculosis drug called Bedaquiline, allowing local...

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‘Tuberculosis has been known to mankind since 20,000 years ago’

March 24, 2023

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Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva is the Regional Director for South East Asia of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), a global...

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Developing medication that treats Tuberculosis in 3 months: Bill Gates

March 22, 2023

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Around 10.6 million people across the world were diagnosed with the TB in 2021, an increase of 4.5 percent from 2020, while 1.6 million patients died of the...