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Tumataas na tuberculosis cases, nananatiling hamon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 24 09:28 PM

Malaking hamon para sa Department of Health ang tumataas na bilang ng mga nagkaka-tuberculosis lalo't kabilang ang Pilipinas sa top contributor sa kaso ng TB, ayon sa World Health Organization. Read more »

DOH: 470,000 TB cases recorded in 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 17 06:45 PM

The Philippines has recorded around 470,000 cases of tuberculosis in 2022, the Department of Health said Friday. Read more »

USAID promotes use of portable chest X-ray machine

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 15 02:40 PM

USAID is promoting the use of a portable X-ray machine, which can detect tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other chest ailments within 5 minutes. Read more »

India: COVID reverses gains in fight against tuberculosis

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Dec 23 09:46 AM

Around half a million people died of tuberculosis in India in 2021 — an increase of over 5% compared to 2020 for the country that shoulders the highest share of the global TB burden. Read more »

Marcos to DOH: Prioritize HIV, tuberculosis fight, too

Job Manahan and Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 06 05:44 PM

In a short video shared by Malacañang, Marcos said there are 'other issues beyond COVID-19.' Read more »

Tuberculosis on the rise after years of decline: WHO

Robin Millard and Agnès Pedrero, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 28 05:06 AM

Most of the estimated increase in TB deaths globally was accounted for by four countries: India, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines. Read more »

Global Fund seeks $18-B to end HIV, TB and malaria

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 21 03:58 PM

The Global Fund will hold a donor conference in New York where it aims to raise at least $18 billion during an event hosted by US President Joe Biden. Read more »

Patients hail new treatment for drug-resistant TB

Daniel Lawler, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 01 09:22 AM

A new drug regimen, called BPaL because it combines the antibiotics bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid, has been seen as a breakthrough in treating drug resistant TB. Read more »

What is your 'household risk' for COVID19 Omicron BA.5?

Dr. Susan Mercado
Updated as of Jul 30 03:01 PM

What are your household risks for COVID19 when the variant is highly transmissible? The more of these you have in your living quarters, the greater your household risk: Read more »

Bahrain denies tuberculosis spread in jails

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 11:52 PM

The Bahrain government on Saturday denied there were "active" cases of tuberculosis in its prisons after the Amnesty International rights watchdog accused authorities of failing to check the spread of the contagious bacterial infection. Read more »

200 tuberculosis cases recorded in South Cotabato

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 02 04:25 PM

About 200 cases of tuberculosis have been recorded by health officials in the province of South Cotabato. Read more »

Parents urged to have babies vaccinated vs diseases

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 08 04:54 PM

Parents are urged to get their infants vaccinated during the Department of Health's catchup immunization program from April until June, its spokesperson said Friday. Read more »

WHO sounds alarm on TB fight funding

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 22 02:06 PM

Global spending on TB diagnostics, treatments and prevention in 2020 was less than half of the target of $13 billion annually by 2022, according to the WHO. Read more »

MPL: How 'Coach V' helps TNC despite hospitalization

Angela Coloma, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 19 11:43 PM

League-leader TNC Pro Team dedicates their season to head coach Vrendon Lin, who is currently at the hospital for Potts disease, or tuberculosis in the spine. Read more »

‘Kung may kuwento, may kuwenta’: TB survivors share story

David Dizon, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 05 08:11 AM

Compassion is key in dealing with TB patients, according to TBPeople Philippines Organization president Eloisa “Louie” Zepeda-Teng. Read more »

COVID worsens fight vs HIV, TB, malaria: Global Fund

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 08 07:34 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic had a "devastating" impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in 2020, according to a report released by the Global Fund on Wednesday. Read more »

News reporting grant to combat tuberculosis in PH launched

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 01:55 PM

Philippine journalists may apply in the TB Media Fellowship to help increase public awareness on tuberculosis.    Read more »

Philippines must enforce new COVID-19 measures vs airborne coronavirus: neurosurgeon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 26 12:02 PM

MANILA - The Philippine government must implement new guidelines in preventing COVID-19 transmission amid more evidence that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is airborne, a neurosurgeon said Monday. Read more »

7 of top 10 killers pre-COVID era were non-communicable diseases: WHO

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 06:59 AM

The WHO's new Global Health Estimates, adding 2019 data to statistics going back to 2000, found that people were living longer lives -- but those extra years were not necessarily lived in good health. Read more »

Vaccines: 200 years of progress -- and skepticism

Olivier Thibault, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 02:55 PM

COVID-19 has been a shot in the arm for vaccine research with several viable jabs in production less than a year after the disease emerged.  Read more »