Health care workers conducting a TB control awareness rally in Vijayawada. File | Photo Credit: K.V.S Giri Tuberculosis (TB) is a treatable disease, but drug resistance is now a major public health concern exacerbated by the emergence of multi and extensively drug-resistant TB. India has the highest burden of Multi-Drug Resistant-TB (MDR-TB) bacteria with the … Read more
New Delhi: Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence has announced the deployment of an AI solution titled Comprehensive Loss to Follow-Up And Mortality Prediction (CLAMP-TB), developed under the USAID-supported TRACE-TB Project. The AI solution will help to predict the risk of ‘loss to follow-up’ (LFU) and mortality among TB patients when they start TB treatment from … Read more
This disease has killed millions over the years and continues to ravage the world, and particularly nations such as India and China even in the 21st Century. By Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan Two epidemics continue to ravage global lung health. One, an infectious disease, primarily affecting the lungs and killing hundreds of thousands of people globally, … Read more
The Coronavirus pandemic has made TB even more threatening as a lesser number of people are getting diagnosis since all focus is on Covid-19. (Reuters image) The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has an adverse impact on the global response to TB services, claimed the World Health Organisation (WHO). Now the Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans frontières), … Read more