A new all-oral treatment regimen for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis has commenced in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Implemented by the National Tuberculosis Program in Papua New Guinea, with ...

Daru, Papua New Guinea, July 2018 – Most people know that Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly, but curable, disease. But what people may not realize is how challenging it is to successfully treat it. Once ...

Australia has told Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O’Neill that addressing tuberculosis on the joint border in the Torres Strait is a priority.

Collaboration to combat growing epidemic. In response to the situation in Daru, the World Bank, together with PNG’s Department of Health and Western Provincial authorities, the Australian Government, ...

Drug resistant tuberculosis is placing a significant strain on Papua New Guinea's poorly ... 15,000 cases of tuberculosis (TB) registered each year in PNG, ... or 18 pills each day spread across ...

Health authorities in Papua New Guinea say they could lose control of a tuberculosis "emergency" if they do not get the funds their government has promised them.

Today marks World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, and the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts (RHHD) are encouraging community members to seek preventative care and screening for TB.

On World Tuberculosis Day 2016, observed on March 24, the PNG government reaffirmed its commitment to ending TB. In Port Moresby, the Department of Health opened the first in-country laboratory ...

How common is TB in the United States? There were 9,633 cases of TB disease reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from 8,332 in 2022.. In ...

For World Tuberculosis Day 2022, News Medical spoke to Dr. Michael Lauzardo, director of the Southeastern National TB Center, to raise awareness of this infectious disease.

HEALTH officials have been accused of not doing enough to prevent the spread of a strain of the killer lung disease tuberculosis in North Queensland. But health authorities claim there is little ...

On the occasion on World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, marked on 24 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for an urgent investment of resources to protect and maintain tuberculosis (TB ...