KNCV Tuberculosefonds

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation Overview 2010

2011 WHO guidelines for PMDT

WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (PMDT): 2011 update.

The first generation of evidence-based guidelines on PMDT.

This guideline shows that, although many cohorts have been analyzed for results and methods, adequate studies to answer the most basic question regarding diagnosis and treatment are still very urgent.

Global Fund 10th Anniversary and meeting the challenges for the next decade

27 January 2012

On January 28, ten years ago, The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in response to the devastating effects of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In their ten years of existence, the Global Fund is the principal financier in the battle against the three diseases and their grants have brought treatment and prevention to millions of people. The Global Fund is providing 88% of all international finance to TB control

Dr. Abel Nkolo

KNCV opens new country office in Kampala Uganda

20 January 2012

KNCV is pleased to announce to opening of a new country office in Kampala Uganda. We will implement a USAID funded TBCARE project in close collaboration with the National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP) at the Ministry of Health.

Totally drug-resistant TB in India: worrying but not new

16 January 2012

A strain of tuberculosis that is resistant to all existing TB drugs has emerged in Mumbai, India. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, which is resistant to the mainline treatments isoniazid and rifampin, emerged in the early 1990s.

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