Little is known about the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in HIV-co-infected adolescents. This study aimed to present the intermediate outcomes of HIV-infected adolescents aged 10–19 years receiving second-line anti-TB treatment in a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in Mumbai, India.
For more than 2.2 million tuberculosis (TB) patients in India — the highest figure in the world — chances of recovery are dwindling. The disease claims an Indian every two minutes.
Stakeholders were not playing their due role to reduce air pollution that making a large number of people suffering from respiratory and skin diseases in Quetta.
Mumbai: The Centre should strengthen the tuberculosis-control programme if it wants to stop thousands of avoidable deaths in the city, a petition signed by over hundred experts here stated.
The Global Fund (The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) offered a grant of US $ 1.9 million to the Sri Lankan government for use on TB control activities.
Alleging that dust particles released by Toshali cement factory situated at Koraput's Ampabali under Pottangi block is polluting the atmosphere, tribals locked the factory for the second consecutiv