Author: A. D. Harries
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241546344
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This manual is designed for health professionals working in high HIV and TB prevalence countries. It summarises the characteristics of both diseases and their interactions. It concentrates particularly on the problems of diagnosis and management both in adults and children and summarises the other HIV related illnesses the clinician might encounter.
TB/HIV
Author: A. D. Harries
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241546344
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This manual is designed for health professionals working in high HIV and TB prevalence countries. It summarises the characteristics of both diseases and their interactions. It concentrates particularly on the problems of diagnosis and management both in adults and children and summarises the other HIV related illnesses the clinician might encounter.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241546344
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This manual is designed for health professionals working in high HIV and TB prevalence countries. It summarises the characteristics of both diseases and their interactions. It concentrates particularly on the problems of diagnosis and management both in adults and children and summarises the other HIV related illnesses the clinician might encounter.
HIV-related TB.
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Tuberculosis and Co-infection with HIV-AIDS
Author: Pranveer Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527541347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book deals with Tuberculosis in exhaustive detail. It incorporates the most recent research on the disease, and is divided into different sections highlighting the chronological history of its development, global spread, the current scenario in India with regards to the disease, seasonality, co-infection with HIV-AIDS, and the novel combinatorial-therapy with special reference to underprivileged and tribal populations. Avoiding lengthy and irrelevant descriptions, it will help the reader, particularly students, to grasp the facts. The book is supplemented with figures and ray diagrams to allow full visualisation of the concepts discussed.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527541347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book deals with Tuberculosis in exhaustive detail. It incorporates the most recent research on the disease, and is divided into different sections highlighting the chronological history of its development, global spread, the current scenario in India with regards to the disease, seasonality, co-infection with HIV-AIDS, and the novel combinatorial-therapy with special reference to underprivileged and tribal populations. Avoiding lengthy and irrelevant descriptions, it will help the reader, particularly students, to grasp the facts. The book is supplemented with figures and ray diagrams to allow full visualisation of the concepts discussed.
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309457637
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309457637
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9291737119
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9291737119
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators.
Treatment of Tuberculosis
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241547588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The emergence of extensively drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, especially in countries with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, is a serious threat to global public health and jeopardizes efforts to effectively control the disease. This publication offers updated recommendations for the diagnosis and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a variety of geographical, economic and social settings, and the recording of data that enables the monitoring and evaluation of programs.--Publisher's description.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241547588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The emergence of extensively drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, especially in countries with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, is a serious threat to global public health and jeopardizes efforts to effectively control the disease. This publication offers updated recommendations for the diagnosis and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a variety of geographical, economic and social settings, and the recording of data that enables the monitoring and evaluation of programs.--Publisher's description.
AIDS and Power
Author: Alex de Waal
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842777077
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842777077
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher Description
Global Tuberculosis Report 2018
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241565640
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global regional and country levels. This is done in the context of recommended global TB strategies and targets endorsed by WHO?s Member States and broader development goals set by the United Nations (UN). The 2018 edition of the global TB report was released on 18 September in the lead up to the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on TB on 26 September 2018.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241565640
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global regional and country levels. This is done in the context of recommended global TB strategies and targets endorsed by WHO?s Member States and broader development goals set by the United Nations (UN). The 2018 edition of the global TB report was released on 18 September in the lead up to the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on TB on 26 September 2018.
Global Tuberculosis Report 2013
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241564652
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention care and control at global regional and country levels using data reported by almost 200 countries that account for over 99% of the world's TB cases. Two years before the 2015 deadline for achievement of global TB targets the 2013 report includes a special supplement that assesses progress towards the 2015 targets and the actions needed to accelerate towards or move beyond them.The report has 8 main chapters. The introductory chapter provides general background on TB as well as an explanation of global targets for TB control the WHO's Stop TB Strategy that covers the period 2006-2015 and the development of a post-2015 global TB strategy. The remaining seven chapters cover the disease burden caused by TB (incidence prevalence mortality); TB case notifications and treatment outcomes; drug resistance surveillance among TB patients and the programmatic response in detecting and providing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB; diagnostics and laboratory strengthening for TB; addressing the co-epidemics of TB and HIV; financing TB care and control; and research and development for new TB diagnostics drugs and vaccines.The four annexes of the report include a thorough explanation of methods used to estimate the burden of disease caused by TB one-page profiles for 22 high TB-burden countries and tables of data on key indicators for all countries organized by WHO region.
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241564652
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention care and control at global regional and country levels using data reported by almost 200 countries that account for over 99% of the world's TB cases. Two years before the 2015 deadline for achievement of global TB targets the 2013 report includes a special supplement that assesses progress towards the 2015 targets and the actions needed to accelerate towards or move beyond them.The report has 8 main chapters. The introductory chapter provides general background on TB as well as an explanation of global targets for TB control the WHO's Stop TB Strategy that covers the period 2006-2015 and the development of a post-2015 global TB strategy. The remaining seven chapters cover the disease burden caused by TB (incidence prevalence mortality); TB case notifications and treatment outcomes; drug resistance surveillance among TB patients and the programmatic response in detecting and providing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB; diagnostics and laboratory strengthening for TB; addressing the co-epidemics of TB and HIV; financing TB care and control; and research and development for new TB diagnostics drugs and vaccines.The four annexes of the report include a thorough explanation of methods used to estimate the burden of disease caused by TB one-page profiles for 22 high TB-burden countries and tables of data on key indicators for all countries organized by WHO region.