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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘Children metabolise TB drugs much faster than adults’

  Dr. Peter R. Donald, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa was awarded an A-rating…

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Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

Malnourished children in India below three years are underdosed for first-line TB drugs

“The ultimate goal of evidence-based drug treatment is to produce a desired pharmacological response in a predictable manner and also to minimise adverse effects,” notes a June 2013 paper published…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘Sentinel Project provides guidance on preventive treatment for children with MDR-TB infection’

Mercedes C Becerra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a TB specialist with Partners In Health and…

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Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

Sentinel Project gives a fillip to managing MDR-TB in children

  The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis is a collective power of a global partnership by experts and others who share the same vision of ensuring that no child…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘In 80-90 %, TB bacilli in children same as in MDR-TB index case’

  Prof. H. Simon Schaaf, a clinical researcher from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa has worked…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘Very few children in India are diagnosed and treated for MDR-TB’

  “A child with TB [is] as likely as an adult with TB to have MDR-TB [multi-drug resistant TB],” notes the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013. that was released last…

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Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

‘Age has a significant effect on the immune system in childhood TB’

Prof Peter R. Donald, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa was awarded the highest honour,…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’

With 8.6 million people across the world developing tuberculosis in 2012 and nearly 1.3 million succumbing to the disease, and with the number of people with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)…

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