Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
TB/HIV collaboration initiatives in Bangladesh
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Dr. Ahmed Parvez Zabeen is receiving a crest after presenting a paper on TB/HIV collaboration - a way-forwards in Health System Strengthening in Bangladesh at 31st Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference held on February 04, 2010 at BCPS Auditorium, Mohakali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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TB/HIV collaboration – a way forwards towards Health
System Strengthening in Bangladesh.
Zabeen AP 1, Hoque N 2, Hiron M Md3
Introduction:
Bangladesh
is number sixth TB-High Burden Countries in the world. Concentrated epidemics
are seen among ID users.
Objectives:
Establish collaboration between National
Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) and National AIDS and STD Program (NASP) to
reduce the burden of tuberculosis and HIV in population affected by both
diseases.
Methodology:
NTP
has taken up necessary actions for collaboration with NASP. NTP initiated the
official approval of the Director General of Health Services and after that in
last one year it has developed policy for collaboration, develop the National
TB/HIV guideline, and orientation workshop on DOTS has been conducted with
policy makers of NASP, partners and different levels of health workers who are
working in HIV/AIDS.
Results:
Director
General of Health Services approves TB/HIV co-ordination committee. TB/HIV
working group has met three times to develop the National TB/HIV Guideline. Ten
workshops were conducted with 261 different levels of policy makers of NASP
partners on DOTS in 2008. Nineteen workshops were conducted with 549
participants with different levels of TB/HIV health care workers on DOTS last
year. One VCT center has been established at National Institute of the Disease
of Chest and Hospital, Dhaka.
Conclusion:
Different activities at policy and service
delivery level leads to effective TB/HIV collaboration in Bangladesh.
1 Divisional Consultant - ACSM, Dhaka
Division, National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP)
2. Assistant Professor, Respiratory Medicine, National
Institute of the Disease of Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), Dhaka
3. Director-cum-Professor, National Institute of the
Disease of Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), Dhaka
Friday, June 29, 2012
Treatment outcome of Tuberculosis in Bangladesh in 2010 (Cohot 2009)
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National
Tuberculosis Control Program, Bangladesh informed that the treatment success
was 91% (cure 90% and complete 1%) and unusual outcomes 9% (died 4%, failure
1%, defaulted 2%, transfer out 2% and others less than 1%) among Smear Positive Pulmunary
Cases (SS+ve) of cohort 2009.
Tuberculosis Case Notification in 2010 in Bangladesh
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National Tuberculosis Control Program, Bangladesh informed that in 2010, 105623 new Smear Positive (SS+ve) pulmonary cases, 4540 Relapse cases, 21418 Smear Negative (SS-ve) pulmonary cases, 23428 Extra-Pulmonary TB (EPTB) cases and 3228 other forms of cases were diagnosed.
The proportion of smear positive pulmonary cases notification was high in 2010 in Bangladesh.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) in Bangladesh
Title:
Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) – a way forwards toward Health System Strengthening in Bangladesh.
Zabeen AP1, Hoque N2, Akhter H3
1Divisional Consultant, Dhaka Division, National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP), 2Assistant Professor, Respiratory Medicine, National Institute of the Disease of the Chest & Hospital (NIDCH), 3 Honorary Consultant, Microbiologist, TB STUDY GROUP(TSG), Dhaka.Introduction
Bangladesh is number sixth TB high burden countries (HBCs) in the world. The implementation of Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) is an approach under Health System Strengthening (HSS), one of the components Stop TB Strategy. The burden of respiratory diseases is high and represents 50% of the outpatients at PHC in Bangladesh.PAL means quality diagnosis and treatment of common respiratory illness (over the age of five years) at primary healthcare facility (PHC).Successful development and implementation of PAL increases TB case detection, improves care quality of acute and chronic respiratory patients at first level of health care facility (PHC), decreases unwanted drug prescription particularly antibiotics and adjuvant drugs, and reduces drug prescription cost per patient.
MethodologyNTP has taken up necessary actions for development and successful implementation of PAL in the country such as situation analysis and mobilization of resources; in near future constitute National PAL Working Group, develop guideline and training materials and supply equipments. PAL initiative will be piloted and gradually scaled up.
Results
An international expert visited National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP), Bangladesh assessed the situation and opined PAL can be successfully implemented in Bangladesh. Following situation analysis NTP has placed a PAL as one of the Service Delivery Areas (SDAs) under The Global Fund (TGF), Round 8 and subsequently also included in TGF Round 10 proposals, TGF approved these proposals including the PAL.
Conclusion
PAL can be successfully implemented in the country with the expected results, for quality improvement in the management respiratory patients including increase in TB case detection.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Bangladesh clebrates World Tuberculosis Day 2012
A grand rally paraded in the different streets of Dhaka on the occasion of the World TB Day 2012 to raise awareness to generate demand for TB services in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh clebrates World TB Day 2012
A grand rally paraded in the different streets of Dhaka on the occasion of the World TB Day 2012 to raise awareness to generate demand for TB services in Bangladesh.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Bangladesh will observe World TB Day 2012
World TB Day 2012 slogan in English and Bangle
Every year on the 24th March, people all over the world observe the World TB Day (WTBD) commemorating the discovery of Mycobectarium tuberculosis, which is responsible for Tuberculosis (TB). On this day in 1882 Dr. Robert Koch has discovered the bacteria that causes TB.
One hundred years later in 1982, World Health Organization (WHO) and International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) jointly decided to observe the World TB Day to remember the discovery and to raise awareness among people and all level of health workers about TB.
This year's campaign slogan is Stop TB in my life time.
Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Geneva, Switzerland on the occasion of World TB Day 2012 said in her message that today’s children in their life times should expect to see a world where no one gets sick with TB and men and women in their life times should expect a world no one dies from TB. All of us can have different hopes, such as for faster treatment, a quick, cheap, low-tech test that is accessible to all or an effective vaccine.
Dr. Samalee Plianbangchang, Regional Director, World Health Organization South East Asia in his message called for let us unite to stop TB. In his message he also expressed that multistakeholder involvement has contributed to about 25% increase in case-notification and to more than 90% of treatment success rate in the South East Asia region. However, he also mentioned that these achievements can be successfully maintained in long term only through national health systems based on the primary health care (PHC) approach.
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