Community sputum collection points across Malawi managed to identify at least 1000 Tuberculosis (TB) patients in 2018 alone and helped the sick to access treatment, effectively avoiding transmission ...

Mumbai: India Health Fund (IHF), a Tata Trusts initiative announced its funding and support for a lollipop- and chewing gum-inspired sputum collection device for testing tuberculosis (TB) among ...

The use of volunteers in community sputum collection has proven effective in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) at community level in Mchinji district. A media visit organized by National TB Program ...

India Health Fund (IHF), a Tata Trusts initiative, has announced its funding and support for a first-of-its-kind lollipop- and chewing gum-inspired sputum collection device for testing tuberculosis ...

Indications : A sputum examination is carried out on patients who show symptoms of TB. Sputum collection is done early in the morning. The patient must have eaten at least two hours before the test.

Blantyre District Environmental Health Officer, Innocent Mvula has expressed excitement over community sputum collection which has significantly improved from 75 in 2023 to 89 percent in 2024. Mvula ...

Shortage of drugs and sputum collection cups at several TB detection centres in the state has led to the state tuberculosis control programme going haywire in Andhra Pradesh during the last six months ...

Shillong (Meghalaya) [India], March 22 (ANI): The 100 Days TB Elimination campaign launched on December 7, last year nationwide and in Meghalaya has accelerated TB detection, treatment and awareness.

Two studies by a team of researchers led by Luis E. Cuevas and Mohammed Yassin from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and jointly coordinated with Andrew Ramsay at WHO-TDR Special Programme ...

Community sputum collection points across Malawi managed to identify at least 1000 Tuberculosis (TB) patients in 2018 alone and helped the sick to access treatment, effectively avoiding transmission ...