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A new action plan outlining measures to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents was launched today by global TB leadership in advance of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level meeting on TB. Building on the first-ever Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward Zero Deaths first issued in 2013, the new Roadmap towards ending TB in […]
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Heads of State will gather in New York on 26 September this year at the United Nations General Assembly first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts in ending TB and reach all affected people with prevention and care. The theme of the meeting is “United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a […]
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Each year, Epicentre organizes a Scientific Day during which the epidemiologist team reports on the works of the previous year. Alongside the formal presentations, discussions and debates help put the results presented into perspective, by taking into account the constraints of practitioners in the field and of decision makers in public health. This event brings […]
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TB-Speed a participé à la 9e conférence de l’AFRAVIH présidée par le Professeur François Dabis et coprésidée par les Professeurs Coumba Toure Kane et Philippe Morlat. AFRAVIH 2018 Bordeaux a rassemblé les acteurs engagés dans la lutte contre le VIH/Sida et les hépatites virales avec une exigence d’efficacité pour la prévention et le traitement des populations […]
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Correspondence about Childhood Tuberculosis. « March 24 marks World Tuberculosis Day, an opportunity to promote greater commitment and leadership in the fight against tuberculosis at all levels. It is particularly urgent to increase awareness and mobilisation on childhood tuberculosis because tuberculosis mortality is still un-acceptably high in children. Indeed, there were 253 000 deaths among one million […]
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A l’occasion de la journée mondiale de lutte contre la tuberculose du 24 mars, retour sur TB-Speed, projet de recherche coordonné par l’université de Bordeaux. Son objectif : contribuer à la réduction de la mortalité chez les enfants due à cette maladie. Un monde sans tuberculose ne sera possible que si tous les enfants sont diagnostiqués quel que soit l’endroit […]
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PRESS-RELEASE On March 24th, we will commemorate the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public awareness about TB. Responsible of over 4,500 deaths a day, this disease presents devastating health, social and economic impacts. Despite the fact that TB is curable, too many children do not access treatment and die from the disease because they […]
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En 2016, 1 million de nouveaux cas de tuberculose ont été détectés dans le monde chez les enfants. Pourtant, seulement 45% de ces cas ont été notifiés à l’Organisation mondiale de la santé. A travers l’Initiative 5%, qui cofinance avec Unitaid l’une des composantes du projet TB Speed, Expertise France contribue à la lutte contre […]
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[…] 3. La France participe aux efforts internationaux de recherche et d’innovation pour accélérer la réponse à la tuberculose La faiblesse du diagnostic de la tuberculose est un défi majeur. L’OMS estime qu’en 2016, plus de 4 millions de personnes affectées n’ont pas été diagnostiqués et n’ont pu être traitées. La tuberculose est particulièrement difficile […]
Plus d'info[…] The Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation II Madam Zuliatu Cooper has said the Ministry of Health and Sanitation is expected to achieve 90% treatment success rate for all people diagnosed with TB through affordable and correct treatment services and social support. … Earlier Dr. Leena Matata of SOLTHIS NGO made a presentation on […]
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January 23, 2018 – Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is challenging and constitutes the main barrier to access to treatment and main gap to reduce mortality due to this disease in children. Contribution of research to reduction of childhood mortality due to tuberculosis is presented through a brief review of the […]
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December 18-20, 2017 – Bordeaux, France. TB-Speed team was reunited during a Kick-Off meeting in Bordeaux (France). This meeting aimed to : introduce consortium members and technical partners overview project activities refine the role of each contributor discuss monitoring, evaluation and data management present the procedures for project management and multilateral collaboration prepare the baseline […]
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Mercredi 6 décembre 2017 – Abidjan. L’université de Bordeaux, le programme PAC-Ci et ses partenaires ont procédé au lancement du projet de recherche: TB-Speed. Ce projet d’une durée de quatre ans est mies en oeuvre dans 7 pays dont 6 en Afrique. Objectif: réduire la mortalité due à la tuberculose infantile en Afrique et en Asie […]
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December 6, 2017 – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire The University of Bordeaux and the Program PAC-CI were pleased to organised the launch event of TB-Speed on December 6, 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire. In Côte d’Ivoire, the TB-Speed project will be under the responsibility of the Program PACCI, French-Côte d’Ivoire Program of research on the infectious […]
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PRESS-RELEASE Unitaid and the University of Bordeaux today launched a four-year research project to cut TB deaths among children by widening availability of fast tests that can be used even in remote, rural settings. The TB-Speed project will be implemented in Cambodia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia by a consortium of eight organizations […]
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Interview of Olivier Marcy, TB-Speed Project Director, during the AIDS Conference in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
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[…] Pourtant, la maladie se soigne et de nouvelles formulations pédiatriques existent. Le talon d’Achille ? Le diagnostic. « Une méthode moléculaire d’examen du crachat l’a révolutionné chez l’adulte, mais elle est difficile à utiliser chez l’enfant, qui souvent ne sait pas produire de crachat et développe des formes extrapulmonaires de tuberculose », précise Mario Raviglione de l’OMS. L’université de Bordeaux a lancé en […]
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October 11-14, 2017 – Guadalajara, Mexico. The 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health, which convened in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 11 to 14 October 2017. It united researchers, global advocates, civil society, scientists, healthcare professionals and students working on all aspects of lung health, under the theme ‘Accelerating Toward Elimination’. During that conference, Unitaid organised a […]
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The annual meeting of the Child and Adolescent TB working group took place on Monday 9 October 2017 in Kigali, Rwanda in conjunction with the WHO AFRO Annual Review and Planning Meeting of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition Programme Managers in the East and Southern African Region. The meeting had a […]
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