Climate change hitting fight against AIDS, TB and malaria
London, UKReuters Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results […]
Essay: TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa – what went wrong?
TOM NYIRENDA looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at the impact of COVID-19 on the fight against tuberculosis…
Tuberculosis deaths rose during pandemic, reversing years of decline – WHO
Reuters Global deaths from tuberculosis are estimated to have increased between 2019 and 2021, reversing years of decline as the COVID-19 pandemic severely derailed efforts to tackle the disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Global efforts to tackle deadly diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]
World leaders pledge billions to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria on UN sidelines
United Nations/New York City, US Reuters The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $US14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic. US President Joe Biden, who hosted the conference in New York on the sidelines of […]
Fight against AIDS, TB and malaria bounced back post-COVID – but not enough
London, UKReuters Efforts to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria began to recover last year after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but the world is still not on track to defeat these killer diseases, according to a report. In its 2022 report, released on Monday, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis […]
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Hundreds of thousands of people will die of tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems in poor countries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a global aid fund said. In a few of the world’s poorest countries, excess deaths from AIDS and tuberculosis could even exceed those from the coronavirus itself, said […]
Africa’s miners face new TB threat as pandemic disrupts treatment
Ermelo, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis due to skipping treatment under lockdown. In just four months, it happened 60 times. When COVID-19 shut South Africa’s mines, workers from Jele’s homeland eSwatini and other neighbouring nations rushed […]
Seasonal flu reports hit record lows amid global social distancing
Beijing, ChinaReuters Global social distancing rules targeting coronavirus have pushed influenza infection rates to a record low, early figures show, signalling that the measures are having an unprecedented impact on other communicable diseases. In China, where the earliest wide-scale lockdown measures began, new reports of diseases including mumps, measles and some sexually transmitted diseases, have […]
Christians urged to join letter writing campaign calling for greater action on TB
Christians are being encouraged to join a letter-writing campaign urging greater action to tackle tuberculosis. The campaign, which is being run by the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, is calling on faith leaders, churches, representatives of faith-based organisations and people of faith to ask to their governments to urgently take action to end […]