A new study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that in addition to providing significant improvements in public health, investment in the diagnosis and prevention of ...

Dolutegravir-based ART with isoniazid was safe and effective for tuberculosis prevention in ART-naïve HIV patients, leading to rapid viral suppression. The study reported minimal adverse events, with ...

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, ...

TB remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Uganda is a high TB-burden country, and HIV accelerates ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a randomized trial from South Africa.

Despite efforts to eliminate the disease, 13 million Americans are living with latent tuberculosis infection, according to the most recent statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination ...

Latent tuberculosis (TB) infection occurs when a person is infected with the TB bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but ...

Few illnesses lay bare the inequities of the modern global health system like tuberculosis. In 2021 alone, the disease killed 1.6 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious illness ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Tuberculosis (TB) can affect any part of the body. Therefore, those who experience frequent joint pains, back pain, headache ...

KILIMANJARO: THE Director of Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital (KIDH) in Siha District, Kilimanjaro Region, Dr Leonard ...