HIV prevalence beginning to fall in South African children - Aidsmap

The authors stress “efforts to prevent TB disease and death should focus on the use of isoniazid preventive therapy, early diagnosis and treatment of TB.” Death rates declined among HIV-infected children. While there was no significant change in death ...

Immunitor presented oral TB vaccine trial at Keystone Symposium in Uganda - YAHOO!

In a separate set of studies daily dose of V7 has been used in 65 treatment-failed MDR-TB patients on palliative therapy consisting of simple two drug combination: isoniazid (H) and rifampicin (R). Both M. vaccae sources, either from British Immodulon (N ...

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Stopping Tuberculosis in Our Lifetimes - Huffington Post

Accessed 4 March 2012. [8] World Health Organization: Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings. 1 May 2011. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011 ...

Kyrgyzstan: Tuberculosis Tests Bishkek’s Approach to Public Health - EurasiaNet

MDR strains have developed immunity to “frontline” anti-TB drugs, such as isoniazid and rifampicin. According to government statistics, prisons have TB rates up to 10 percent higher than the population as a whole. But Madina Tokombaeva ...