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Role of triage audit in an ongoing differentiated TB care initiative to reduce deaths in Tamil Nadu, India

Public Health Action
OBJECTIVE: In the ongoing India’s first state-wide differentiated TB care programme in Tamil Nadu (TN-KET), adults diagnosed with drug-sensitive TB at public facilities undergo triage.
A. Jeyakumar, S. Kalaiselvi, D. Nair, R. Vijayaprabha, D. Kabir, J.M. Melfha, T. Bhatnagar, R. Srinivasan, K. Gayathri, K. Boopathi, R.S. Vaman, V. Rajan, S. Shanmugasundaram, A. Frederick, H.D. Shewade   +14 more
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To start or to complete? – Challenges in implementing tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV: a mixed-methods study from Karnataka, India

Global Health Action, 2020
Background: Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) has been shown to reduce the risk of tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV (PLHIV). In 2017, India began a nationwide roll-out of IPT, but there is a lack of evidence on the implementation and the ...
Mahendra M. Reddy, Pruthu Thekkur, Nagesh Ramya, Prasanna B. T. Kamath, Suresh G. Shastri, Ravi B. N. Kumar, Palanivel Chinnakali, Abhay S. Nirgude, Chethana Rangaraju, Narasimhaiah Somashekar, Ajay M. V. Kumar   +10 more
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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
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Tuberculosis in key populations in Tajikistan – a snapshot in 2017

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: WHO End TB Strategy aims at achieving targets of 90% mortality reduction and 80% reduction in tuberculosis (TB) incidence by 2030, recommending better addressing TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) issues in key populations. Aim: The
Zulfiya Tilloeva, Seda Aghabekyan, Karapet Davtyan, Olga Goncharova, Olim Kabirov, Bobojon Pirmahmadzoda, Asliddin Rajabov, Azamdzhon Mirzoev, Garry Aslanyan   +8 more
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Breaking the paradigm: Optimized Case Finding multiplies tuberculosis detection among key populations in Ukraine

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: In 2018, there were 3 million “missed” tuberculosis (TB) cases globally, much of which was disproportionally concentrated among key populations.
Liliia Masiuk, Olga Denisiuk, Evgenia Geliukh, Zahedul Islam, Garry Aslanyan, Rony Zachariah   +5 more
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Sex Sorting for Pest Control: It’s Raining Men! [PDF]

Trends in Parasitology, 2019
In the pursuit of better pest- and vector-control strategies, attention returns to an old proven technology, the sterile insect technique (SIT) and related insect population-suppression methods. A major obstacle for any of these approaches that involves the release of sterile males is the separation of males from females during the mass rearing stage ...
Lutrat, Célia, Giesbrecht, David, Marois, Eric, Whyard, Steve, Baldet, Thierry, Bouyer, Jérémy   +5 more
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The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard, Hital Patel, Paula C. Vincent, Justine Kahn, Kira Bona, Thai Hoa Tran, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Kristopher Attwood, Kara M. Kelly   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment success rates among tuberculosis patients notified from the private sector in West Bengal, India

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2021
In India, an estimated 50% of tuberculosis (TB) patients are diagnosed and managed by private providers (PPs). However, there is limited information on treatment outcomes among those treated by PPs largely because of a lack of systems for patient follow ...
Vivek Sharma, Pruthu Thekkur, Poonam R. Naik, Brojo Kishore Saha, Niraj Agrawal, Milan K. Dinda, S. Parthiban, Abhijit Dey, Basavaraj Poojar, Amrita N. Shamanewadi, Srinath Satyanarayana   +10 more
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jewish Education (Chapter 26 of The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts) [PDF]

, 2013
The nature of Jewish education in the first century has clear relevance for a number of issues in NT interpretation. How did Jesus learn Torah—at home, at school? Could he even read and write? Were his disciples illiterates?
Yinger, Kent
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