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Cost, Affordability and Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Control Tuberculosis in Countries With High HIV Prevalence
The HIV epidemic has caused a dramatic increase in Tuberculosis TB in East and southern Africa. Several strategies have the potential to reduce the burden of TB in high HIV prevalence settings, and cost and cost-effectiveness analyses can help to prioritize them when budget constraints exist. However, published cost and...
Tags: Strategy, HIV Virus, HIV Epidemic, TB
White papers 2005-12-12

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Addressing poverty in TB control; options for national TB control programmes
Addressing poverty in TB control; options for national TB control programmes. World Health Organization 2005 80 pages $18.00 Paperback RC311 Jointly prepared by the World Health Organization's Stop TB Department and its Stop TB Partnership, this report discusses the integration of "pro-poor" measures...
Tags: poverty, World Health Organization
Research articles 2006-12-01
Chiron Compound Enters Clinical Trials Through the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development; Phase I Studies to Begin for First Tuberculosis Drug Developed by a Public-Private Partnership
EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Chiron Corporation (Nasdaq:CHIR) today announced that the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development TB Alliance has initiated Phase I clinical trials for the tuberculosis TB drug candidate PA-824. Chiron granted the TB Alliance exclusive worldwide rights to PA-824 and related compounds in 2002, with a commitment to...
Tags: Chiron Corp., clinical trial
Research articles 2005-06-14
Altra Holdings, Inc. Announces Successful Completion of Its Acquisition of TB Wood's Corporation
Altra Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIMC) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of TB Wood's Corporation ("TB Wood's") pursuant to a short form merger in which Forest Acquisition Corporation, a subsidiary of Altra, was merged with and into TB Wood's, resulting in TB Wood's becoming a wholly owned subsidiary...
Tags: Altra Holdings Inc., TB Wood's Corp.
Research articles 2007-04-06
TB HARD DRIVE TO BE SOLD IN CHINA
AsiaInfo Services 01-18-2007 TB Hard Drive to Be Sold in China SHENZHEN, Jan 18, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The world's first terabyte TB hard drive will be sold in China's retail market in the first quarter of 2007 at a...
Tags: hard drive, Hitachi Ltd.
Research articles 2007-01-18
Eli Lilly to invest $50m in TB eradication alliance.
Mar. 24--Eli Lilly and Co will invest an additional $50 million in Lilly Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Partnership, a global TB eradication alliance, over four years. Mar. 24--Eli Lilly and Co will invest an additional $50 million in Lilly Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Partnership,...
Tags: alliance, Eli Lilly & Co.
Research articles 2007-03-24
SAfrica to host meeting on killer TB strains
JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africa has invited experts from the UN World Health Organisation and a regional bloc for talks next week to discuss a virulent form of tuberculosis which has killed at least 78 people. The two-day meeting starting Tuesday in Johannesburg will focus on the twin menaces of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, strategy
Research articles 2006-10-12
Africa needs to wake up on killer TB strains: UN
PRETORIA AFP — Governments in Africa need to start paying more than lip service to combat a virulent form of tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation WHO said. South Africa, where 78 people from have recently died from either multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extremely-drug resistant TB (XDR-TB), is hosting a...
Tags: Africa, Agence France-Presse
Research articles 2006-10-17
Extremely drug-resistant TB spreading in India
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Extremely drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB, is a growing problem in India affecting mostly young, working-age people, researchers said Tuesday at the American Thoracic Society's 2007 conference. The first study of the problem in India found that XDR-TB accounted for 8.0 percent of multi-drug resistant cases...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, conference, India
Research articles 2007-05-21
What you need to know about drug-resistant TB
The case of the Georgia traveler with drug-resistant TB has the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other experts offering answers. USA TODAY's Anita Manning and Bob Davis sort through the questions: Q: What is XDR-TB? A: Extensively...
Tags: antibiotics, bacteria, patient, USA Today, World Health Organization
Research articles 2007-05-31
Fraction of TB patients get the best care - UN Reported - Brief Article
A World Health Organization report stated that only 27 per cent of the world's tuberculosis TB patients are being reached by DOTS, the internationally recommended strategy for TB treatment and control. DOTS is thought to be the best chance for controlling the global epidemic. Its five key components--government commitment to...
Tags: epidemic, patient, Strategy, World Health Organization
Research articles 2002-06-01
Winchester Systems' Disk Array Expands to 80 TB with 1 TB SATA Disks
Features RAID 6 Dual Parity for Large Arrays BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced a new SATA disk array that expands to 80 TB with 1 TB disk drives. As disk arrays increase in size, so do the chances of a...
Tags: Winchester Systems Inc.
Research articles 2007-09-12
Winchester Systems Disk Arrays Expand to 224 TB With 2 TB SATA Disks
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced their new FlashDisk SX-3400 and FlashDisk SX-2300 SATA disk arrays. The SX-3400 expands to 224 TB using 3U high shelves and the SX-2300 expands to 168 TB using 2U high shelves....
Tags: Winchester Systems Inc.
Research articles 2009-08-11
TB Alliance and BG Medicine Initiate Biomarker Discovery Program; Project Aims to Streamline and Shorten Drug Development for Tuberculosis
NEW YORK and WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development TB Alliance and BG Medicine Inc. announced today a collaboration to identify biomarkers for drug efficacy in the treatment of tuberculosis TB, a step toward faster and more efficient drug development.
Tags: Streamline
Research articles 2006-02-21
Drug-resistant TB raging in Eastern Europe, Central Asia
GENEVA AFP ? Drug-resistant tuberculosis is raging in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and China may be next to follow suit, the World Health Organisation WHO warned. It said six out of the 10 "global hotspots" for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) are countries in the former Soviet empire -- Estonia,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, antibiotics, China, patient
Research articles 2004-03-15
Japan's rapidly aging population behind increase of TB cases.
OSAKA, Feb. 19 Kyodo Tuberculosis TB is on the rise again in Japan and other developed areas in East Asia, largely due to the countries' rapidly aging population and migration, experts told a conference on the disease in Osaka on Tuesday. In...
Tags: conference, Japan, Osaka, World Health Organization
Research articles 2002-02-25
Old foes join fight against TB
Kren, Lawrence Machine Design 01-13-2000 Old foes join fight against TB Byline: Kren, Lawrence Volume: 72 Number: 1 ISSN: 00249114 Publication Date: 01-13-2000 Page: 52 Type: Periodical Language: English Tuberculosis TB is now infecting thousands of prisoners in Russian jails and is making an alarming comeback in the...
Tags: Biotechnology, DNA, Motorola Inc., patient
Research articles 2000-01-13
TB Wood's Corporation Announces Waiver of Financing Condition to Tender Offer and Extension of Tender Offer
TB Wood's Corporation (NASDAQ: TBWC) announced today that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement among TB Wood's Incorporated, Plant Engineering Consultants, LLC, and TB Wood's Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation as borrowers, AEA Mezzanine Funding LLC, AEA Mezzanine Fund LP, and AEA Mezzanine Unleveraged Fund LP as purchasers,...
Tags: Company, FINANCE, financial, financing, income, Investment, SEC, shareholder, warrant
Research articles 2005-10-12
60 cases of resistant TB in Swaziland
MBABANE AFP — At least 60 cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have been detected this year in the southern African kingdom of Swaziland, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Themba Dlamini, Swaziland's tuberculosis programmes manager, said that none of those with the disease had died but added that...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-04-17
WHO seeks over 2 billion dollars to tackle drug-resistant TB
GENEVA AFP — The World Health Organisation said Friday it is seeking 2.15 billion dollars (1.6 billion euros) in its fight against drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, amid warnings of a "return to the pre-antibiotic era" if they spread unchecked. Between 400,000 and 450,000 people worldwide suffer from multi-drug resistant...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, Geneva, patient
Research articles 2007-06-22
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