Expanding beyond DOTS to stop TB. Primary tabs. View (active tab) Preview; 31 March 2006. Estimated reading time 22 minutes. This article originally appeared in HIV & AIDS treatment in practice, an ...

World TB Day: DOTS and its 5 basic measures to deal with tuberculosis. ... If you follow the full course of TB treatment, the disease can be treated (nearly 100%) in a span of 6 months.

Cape Town - When Cape Town opera star Sidwill Hartman is in full-throated song, it is hard to imagine that the 44-year-old singer was once a scrawny child with a disease that threatened to destroy his ...

India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world. TB, an age-old infectious disease, has continued to cast a long shadow over India's ...

Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis (TB) over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by WHO. About Careers Internship MedBlog Contact us English (US) ...

Nairobi — Malawi's successful use of a well-known tuberculosis (TB) treatment system to scale up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV could improve chronic disease management in other African ...

Tuberculosis is completely curable through short-course chemotherapy. Treating TB cases who are sputum-smear positive (and who can therefore spread the disease to others) at the source is the most ...

New York City, with one of the highest TB rates in the U.S., found that video DOT was "just as effective" as traditional DOT, said the city's health commissioner.

An ancient disease, tuberculosis has been found in the skulls and spinal cords of Egyptian mummies 3,000 years old. ... Directly Observed Treatment Short-course, or DOTS, ...

The centre may begin an exhaustive drive against the disease of tuberculosis with the department of health research recommending application of an improved version of (DOTS) - DOTS-plus. LUCKNOW ...

Tuberculosis is an infectious airborne disease that develops in over 5,000 people in India every day and kills nearly 1000 persons. Moreover, India has been entitled as the country with the ...

Cape Town - When Cape Town opera star Sidwill Hartman is in full-throated song, it is hard to imagine that the 44-year-old singer was once a scrawny child with a disease that threatened to destroy his ...