Sex-disaggregated tuberculosis data call for gender-equitable tuberculosis control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rowley ◽  
Nanthalile Mugala
Keyword(s):  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Data Call

Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on Tuerculosis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1084-1088
Author(s):  
Deepanshu Chawla ◽  
Pankaj Wagh ◽  
Saood Ali ◽  
Ulhas Jadhav ◽  
Babaji Ghewade
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Adverse Outcome ◽  
Central India ◽  
Lung Compliance ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Airborne Infection ◽  
Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Economic Constraints

Covid19 or SARS COV 2 is the most dreaded pandemic of the century, causing widespread mortality and morbidity. On the other hand, tuberculosis is an age-old disease killing billions around the globe every year. Both the diseases have caused a significant loss of human lives along with socio-economic constraints. While SARS Cov 2 is a very new disease, tuberculosis is known to humanity for thousands of years. Tuberculosis is an airborne infection while Covid spreads via droplet spread and through fomite as well. Tuberculosis and complications related to it may lead to increased mortality due to poor lung compliance. Moreover, Tuberculosis control programmed may get affected due to the ongoing pandemic. To decrease the adverse outcome of Covid19 on Tb strict measures like proper social distancing, hand hygiene, compliance to Anti Tubercular drugs, domiciliary Tb care and strengthening immune system may prove important. Measures like the use of masks, proper cough hygiene and repeated washing of hands may play a role in decreasing the spread of tuberculosis as well and might also play a role in the elimination of tuberculosis. The article also highlights the measures taken in a rural hospital in central India for the management of COVID 19 and Tuberculosis and the possible difficulties faced in the management of tuberculosis during the Covid pandemic.

GPRA data call 2003

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
None None
Keyword(s):  
Data Call

Computational Overview of Mycobacterial Thymidine Monophosphate Kinase

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 1676-1681
Author(s):  
Sana Gul ◽  
Ruqaiya Khalil ◽  
Zaheer Ul-Haq ◽  
Mohammad S. Mubarak
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Docking ◽  
Structure Elucidation ◽  
Tuberculosis Patient ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Morbidity Rate ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Bacterial Enzyme ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Thymidine Monophosphate

: Tuberculosis (TB) ranks among the diseases with the highest morbidity rate with significantly high prevalence in developing countries. Globally, tuberculosis poses the most substantial burden of mortality. Further, a partially treated tuberculosis patient is worse than untreated; they may lead to standing out as a critical obstacle to global tuberculosis control. The emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) strains, and co-infection of HIV further worsen the situation. The present review article discusses validated targets of the bacterial enzyme thymidine monophosphate kinase (TMPK). TMPKMTB enzyme belongs to the nucleoside monophosphate kinases (NMPKs) family. It is involved in phosphorylation of TMP to TDP, and TDP is phosphorylated to TTP. This review highlights structure elucidation of TMP enzymes and their inhibitors study on TMP scaffold, and it also discusses different techniques; including molecular docking, virtual screening, 3DPharmacophore, QSAR for finding anti-tubercular agents.

Engaging community pharmacists as partners in tuberculosis control: A case study from Mumbai, India

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjiri S. Gharat ◽  
Carolyn A. Bell ◽  
Girish T. Ambe ◽  
J. Simon Bell
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Tuberculosis Control

scholarly journals Directly Observed Treatment: planning perspectives, improvisation and transfer of policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1940-1948
Author(s):  
Rarianne Carvalho Peruhype ◽  
Simone Gomes Costa ◽  
Juliana Feliciati Hoffmann ◽  
Karen Bissell ◽  
Fernando Mitano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Operational Planning ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Directly Observed Treatment ◽  
Contextual Change

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the possibilities of positive and negative association of improvisation and the understanding of what will be the planning by managers and coordinators of tuberculosis control programs, in a context of transference of the Directly Observed Treatment policy. Method: this is a qualitative study, developed through semi-structured interviews analyzed in the light of French Discourse Analysis. Results: there was a weakening of the constructive and operational planning process, which is at the mercy of political will and the need of putting out fires. This, in turn, along with achômetro (Brazilian popular expression used on unsubstantiated point of view or opinion that is based solely and exclusively on the intuition of the person who says it), composed the metaphor of improvisation in its negative perspective, understood by automatism and unsystematization process. Improvisation, however, emerged as a representation of innovation, creativity, and contextual change. Final considerations: both the planning and the transfer of public policies constitute processes that need to be strengthened and qualified in the field of public health.

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