Bolivian sex workers were more likely than other employed women to report tuberculosis screening only if they reported HIV screening. Of all women with household tuberculosis exposure, <40% reported screening for themselves or their children. Coupling tuberculosis screening with sex workers' mandatory HIV screenings may be a cost-efficient disease-control strategy.

OBJECTIVE To improve the Zambia Prisons Service's implementation of tuberculosis screening and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. METHODS For both tuberculosis and HIV, we implemented mass screening of inmates and community-based screening of those residing in encampments adjacent to prisons. We also established routine systems – with inmates as peer educators – for the screening of ...

INTRODUCTION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering implementation of overseas medical screening of student-visa applicants to reduce the numbers of active tuberculosis cases entering the United States. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the costs, cases averted, and cost-effectiveness of screening for, and treating, tuberculosis in United States-bound students from countries with v...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis cases in foreign-born persons account for more than 50% of all tuberculosis cases in the United States. The Institute of Medicine has recommended enhancing overseas screening as one measure to support tuberculosis elimination efforts. We assessed the ability of overseas tuberculosis screening (chest radiograph followed by 3 acid-fast bacilli sputum smears for persons wit...

The objective : to evaluate the clinical and economic efficiency impact of mass fluorography screening population on tuberculosis mortality rates timely detection in four federal districts Russian Federation with different levels coverage screening. Subjects Methods . Analytical materials Federal Center for Monitoring Tuberculosis Transmission Control posted official websites were used. analyze...

in this study synthesis of nicotinoyl hydrazone derivatives is investigated by introducing the nicotinicacidhydrazidepharmacophore into several molecules and screening for antimycobacterial activity. benzaldehyde derivatives react with nicotinicacidhydrazideto form nicotinoylhydrazones.the synthesized compounds were screened against m. tuberculosis h 37 rv, clinical isolates of m. tuberculosis ...

BACKGROUND Screening of immigrants has been a widespread response to the global resurgence of tuberculosis but has been criticized as discriminatory and stigmatising. Acceptability is an essential but neglected ethical prerequisite of screening programmes, particularly those targeting vulnerable groups such as refugees. No data exist concerning acceptability of tuberculosis screening. We theref...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main cause of tuberculosis (TB), has still remained a global health crisis especially in developing countries. Tuberculosis treatment is a laborious and lengthy process with high risk of non compliance, cytotoxicity adverse events and drug resistance in patient. Recently, there has been an alarming rise of drug resistant in TB. In this regard, it is an unmet need...

In the UK, tuberculosis is an urgent public health problem, particularly for immigrants and other socially deprived and vulnerable groups. London has the highest rate of tuberculosis of any western European capital. Although recently improved National Health Service tuberculosis services aimed at early diagnosis and initiatives to prevent transmission in hard-to-reach groups are in place, these...