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[podcast] Decentralise people-centred services to find all, treat all and prevent all TB among people living with HIV

This podcast features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. He shares what #PutPeopleFirst means to him in the lead up to the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024).

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[video] Detecting TB is very critical to #EndTB: WHO's Dr Arvind Mathur shares more on Laboratory On Wheels

[podcast] Detecting TB early and accurately is critical part of #EndTB strategy: Know more about TB laboratory on wheels in Timor-Leste

This podcast features Dr Arvind Mathur, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Timor-Leste. Detecting the TB cases and the diagnostics are very critical part of the #EndTB Strategy, says Dr Mathur. He shares insights on range of ways we can increase new TB case detection by using existing diagnostic technologies in local contexts, rollout of best treatment regimens for TB, and care and support needs. He shines a spotlight on one of the best examples of reaching out and serving the unreached: the TB laboratory on wheels in Timor-Leste (a mobile van which has WHO recommended Truenat molecular test and portable x-ray).

This Podcast features a conversation with Urvashi Prasad, public policy specialist at Niti Aayog, Government of India (a policy think tank to foster state involvement in policy making processes) where she focuses on health, nutrition, sanitation and gender. She is among the LEADERS featured in #EndTB Dialogues - a special CNS series, presenting insightful and thought-provoking interviews with leaders to accelerate progress towards ending TB.

World TB Day 2019 Webinar: It's Time to bend the curve sharply to #endTB

[Podcast] SDM Health Justice Lecture for June 2017: Food security for people with TB and/or HIV | Speaker: Dr KS Sachdeva

[SDM Health Justice Lecture Series] Food security for people with TB and/or HIV

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Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has kindly consented to deliver the June 2017 e-talk as part of the Shanti Devi Memorial Health Justice Lecture Series.

Reducing childhood pneumonia deaths in India: Work in progress

Dr Nachiket Sule, CNS Correspondent, India

During the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) period, the global under 5 mortality rate declined by more than half— from 90 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. India had an estimated 609,000 deaths among children under the age of 5 due to pneumonia and diarrhea in 2010, the highest amongst all the countries in the world.

Why The World cannot fight AIDS by ignoring TB?

Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria

Medical and historical evidence now abound, showing that the world cannot fight AIDS by ignoring TB. In 2015, the world recorded 10.4 million new TB cases of which people living with HIV (PLHIV) accounted for 1.2 million (11%) cases. There were an estimated 1.4 million TB deaths, with 400,000 deaths resulting from TB disease among PLHIV.

Are TB programmes responsible for poverty alleviation?

Alice Sagwidza-Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland

Coming back from the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Liverpool in October 2016, it is time to reflect upon the myriad advancements and debates to better the quality of care for people with TB—shortening the treatment schedule for multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), addressing the otherwise forgotten groups like adolescents, celebrities opening up about having lived with TB, and plenty more on fresh approaches to end the epidemic.

Towards a TB free India: It cannot be a lone battle

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS

India carries the highest global burden of TB—a curable disease that kills one Indian every 90 seconds. There are 2.2 million new cases of TB in the country every year, out of which an estimated 71,000 cases are of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). This curable disease kills 110,000 HIV-associated TB cases also emerging annually in India, second only to South Africa, and the country accounts for 10% of the global TB/HIV burden. Between 2006 and 2014, TB cost the Indian economy a staggering $340 billion.

India does not need an enemy

Dr Sandeep Pandey, Bobby Ramakant, Dr Rahul Pandey, CNS

The Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal intends to set up a three tier public health care system in the country’s capital. A 1000 Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics will be the primary health care centres. A 100 polyclinics will function as a link between the primary and main health centres. This system will reduce the rush in OPDs of hospitals. In Sri Lanka there is a health centre within 1.4 km from the residence of most people. Life expectancy in Sri Lanka at about 75 years is ten times more than in India. Infant mortality rate in Sri Lanka is merely 11 per thousand live births compared to 47 in India. Under-five mortality rates in India and Sri Lanka are 61 and 12, respectively, for the same number of live births. Maternal mortality ratio per lakh live births in India is 200, whereas in Sri Lanka it is merely 35. Infant immunization in Sri Lanka is almost universal whereas India struggles to reach out to less than three fourths of its children.

To breathe is to live : Call for action to tackle pneumonia

Dr Richa Sharma, CNS Correspondent, India

A walk in a clinic in an urban slum or rural setting is invariably associated with one coming across a parent sitting with their child helping them to breathe through the mouthpiece of a nebulizer machine. Such is the presence of pneumonia cases in developing countries and resource constraint settings.

Knowledge translation into policy is not automatic, it is political: Dr Binayak Sen

Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS

"Translation of knowledge into policy is not automatic. It is a political process" said Dr Binayak Sen, a recipient of prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2008. He spoke to Citizen News Service (CNS) at 22nd Cochrane Colloquium in Hyderabad, India, and remarked that "technical advancements in informatics and processing of information and the impulse towards democratization of knowledge structures have come together at this Colloquium. Coming together of these two processes will create an impulse for genuine democratization of medical knowledge. We are looking forward to the day when everybody will be able to access all the medical knowledge in the world. At least there should be no barrier for people who want to access knowledge from medical system."

Hara Mihalea, CNS Correspondent, Thailand
There is a debate whether providing food packages to TB patients motivates them to stay and successfully complete their treatment and so far there is no evidence to fully support this theory. However, people like me who for years have worked at the patient level, can say with confidence that when families do not know when their next meal will come from, they will not seek care when they are sick because they neither want to lose their daily income nor spend the little money they have at the health centre or hospital.

Shobha Shukla - CNS
A hot and dusty 2 hours ride on bumpy roads brought me from Kanpur to the nondescript Rasoolabad block of Kanpur Dehat, where a Home Based Post Natal Care Project (HBPNC) has brought about measurable improvements in maternal and child health. This project, funded by the World Bank and executed by a Kanpur based NGO Shramik Bharti in Rasoolabad over a period of April 2012--September 2013, has proved to be an effective and innovative approach to avert maternal and neonatal deaths in the rural community by focussing on home based management of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH), as a large number of maternal deaths occur in the postpartum period of 42 days after delivery, mainly due to haemorrhage.

This is one of the main findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) - a collaborative project conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington to quantify the trends in the world’s health problems. The report will be formally released at the Royal Society in London on Dec. 14 and published in The Lancet, which has dedicated an entire triple issue to this massive systematic scientific study which was conducted by 486 authors from 50 countries, including 26 low- and middle-income countries.