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Good News for Gambia’s Medical Sector

We congratulate the 3rdbatch of medical assistants who recentlygraduated after completing a one-year medical assistant laboratory course atthe School of Nursingand Midwifery in Banjul.The course was attended by 19 students and was organised bythe National Heath Laboratory Service at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospitalin Banjul.The course was funded by the Global Fund for Tuberculosis in collaboration withthe Department of State for Health and Social Welfare. Graduates of this kind are a huge...

KENYA: Isolation wards vital in TB fight

Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, the lack of isolation wards is raising concerns. "This is not the best place; TB is a highly infectious disease,” Catherine Koskei, a matron working at the facility, told IRIN. “The patients need to be restricted.” Patients make daily visits to the centre, a tent in an open field in the hospital grounds, where natural ventilation and...

New herbal pharmacy opens

A new herbal clinic was recently opened in Ghana town, Brufut by the Traditional Medicine and Home Care Foundation (TMHCF).The pharmacy is located along the Brufut beach way through Ghana town.   The herbalist and president of the organisation, Dr Al-Hassan, said he had collected some very good traditional medicine for common and chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension, tuberculosis, pneumonia, chronic headaches, stomach aches, etc. In addition Dr Abubakarr gave free counselling...

Journalists sensitized on TB prevention

The National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme of the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday began a two-day sensitization workshop for journalists on Tuberculosis prevention and control held at the Paradise Suites Hotel. In his opening remarks, Mr Ismaila Njie, chief nursing officer, who deputized on behalf of Dr Malick Njie, SoS for Health and Social Welfare said, the aim of the sensitization workshop is to inform and empower journalists with the knowledge and...

Health Journalist Training on TB Management Kicks Off

A two-day training course for health journalists on the prevention and control of tuberculosis prevention and control is underway at the Paradise Suites hotel. The workshop has been organised by the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme (NLTP) at the Department of State for Health and is funded by the Global Fund Grant. In his opening remarks, on behalf of permanent secretary at the department, the chief nursing officer Ismalia Njie said the aim of the workshop is to inform and...

Continued Co-operation Will Yield Great Results

Well done to the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme (NLTP) at the Department of State for Health for organising, and the Global Fund Grant for financing, the two-day training course for health journalists on the prevention and control of tuberculosis. The importance of such a workshop cannot be overemphasised. Speaking on behalf of permanent secretary at the department, the chief nursing officer Ismalia Njie said that approximately 2.4 million new cases of TB occur each year...

KENYA: Displacement raises risk of drug-resistant TB

The threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been heightened by the displacement of an estimated 300,000 people in Kenya's recent political crisis, health workers have said. "During the violence, many displaced people were disrupted from their lives, which meant disruption from drugs," said Dr Henderson Irimu, head of the HIV/TB treatment care at the Kenyatta National Hospital, the country's largest referral hospital. "Due to the violence it was impossible for people to come...

Progress in TB diagnosis and control slowing, says new report

The Global tuberculosis control 2008, released today by WHO, finds that the pace of the progress to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic slowed slightly in 2006, the most recent year for which data were available. The new information documents a slowdown in progress on diagnosing people with TB. Between 2001 to 2005, the average rate at which new TB cases were detected was increasing by 6% per year; but between 2005 and 2006 that rate of increase was cut in half, to 3%. The reason for this...

UGANDA: Only one third of TB patients cured

Becky Mugisha* had been ill with a hacking cough for three months before she was admitted into one of Kampala’s busiest tuberculosis (TB) wards, but she recognised the symptoms long before that. It was her second bout with the disease. The last time Mugisha had had TB, about a year before, she was put on a sixth-month course of treatment. As a person living with HIV, she was used to taking multiple pills on a daily basis, but she failed to complete her treatment because the dispensing clinic...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Tuberculosis infections spreading

Tuberculosis (TB) infections in Côte d’Ivoire increased 9 percent between 2006 and 2008, and almost 10 percent of the cases were multidrug resistant, according to new World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of Health data. “The total increase corresponds to an increase of 23,000 cases detected,” said Jacquemin Kouakou, director of the anti-tuberculosis unit at the Health Ministry. In 2005 there were 18,000 cases of TB in Côte d’Ivoire, rising to 21,000 in 2006, the last time data was...