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Fresh hope rose last week for Nigerian Tuberculosis, TB, patients as the World Health organisation unveiled a novel rapid diagnostic test and a shorter, cheaper treatment regimen that would speed up detection and improve treatment outcomes for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).


At less than US$ 1000 (N300,000) per patient, the new treatment regimen can be completed in 9-12 months. Not only is it less expensive than current regimens, but it is also expected to improve outcomes and potentially decrease deaths due to better adherence to treatment and reduced loss to follow-up.
Speaking on the new regimen, the Director of WHO's Global TB Programme, Dr. Mario Raviglione described it as a critical step forward in tackling the MDR-TB public health crisis. "The new WHO recommendations offer hope to hundreds of thousands of MDR-TB patients who can now benefit from a test that quickly identifies eligibility for the shorter regimen, and then complete treatment in half the time and at nearly half the cost." The conventional treatment regimens, which take 18-24 months to complete, yield low cure rates: just 50 percent on average globally. This is largely because patients find it very hard to keep taking second-line drugs, which can be quite toxic, for prolonged periods of time.
The shorter regimen is recommended for patients diagnosed with uncomplicated MDR-TB, for example those individuals whose MDR-TB is not resistant to the most important drugs used to treat MDR-TB, known as "second-line drugs".
It is also recommended for individuals who have not yet been treated with second line drugs.
With the new rapid diagnostic test to identify second-line drug resistance, the most reliable way to rule out resistance to second-line drugs is a newly recommended diagnostic test for use in national TB reference laboratories. The novel diagnostic test - called MTBDRsl - is a DNA-based test that identifies genetic mutations in MDR-TB
strains



www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/unveils-rapid-tb-diagnostic-test/


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tosyne2much:
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henrygale:
People has lost hope in NLC.
If even there will be any strike on Wednesday, people will do it just to save demselves from spending scarce funds to go work without being paid for several months and not for one NLC!

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mbaboy:
You called them ragtag creek rats but they carried out successful attacks on oil installations that affected Nigerian economy adversely. Am not in support of them but am curious why the army went after them immediately while the Fulani herdsmen hacking people's head are walking freely. According to our Mohammed Buhari they are from libya

I wonder too oh
Nigeria which way everything is all about tribe.

ABUJA—IN a desperate move to avert a nationwide strike by organised labour and its civil society allies over the N145 per litre new pump price of petrol, the Federal Government has invited labour leaders in the country for a meeting today.
House of Representatives will also, today, hold a special plenary and take a position on the recent increase in price of petrol.


However, leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, their counterparts in Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and civil society allies had on Saturday, given government up till midnight tomorrow to reverse the pump price to the pre-Wednesday, May 11 rate of N86.50 or face a nationwide strike and street protests.
Vanguard gathered that the meeting will take place 10 am today at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
According to a source, the meeting will involve stakeholders, including leaders of NLC, TUC, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and their Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN counterpart.
This came as NLC faction, led by Joe Ajaero, said it would today and tomorrow meet with civil society groups, market women, informal workers' groups and other Nigerians to fine-tune strategies on how to shut critical sectors of the economy should government fail to meet its demands.
He called on the Federal Government to reverse the N145 pump price hike and convoke a meeting of all relevant stakeholders before end of the Tuesday deadline to determine appropriate price of petrol or risk nationwide strike and mass action.
Ajaero, contended that what the government had done was simply to hike price to get more money without considering its overall implications on the masses of the country who were already struggling to survive in the midst of high cost of living.
According to him, government is not concerned about how to ensure that 100 per cent of the products were sourced locally, and faulted the blanket approval given to everyone interested in importation of petrol to go ahead and import.
He noted that it was a shame that, Nigeria, as a major producer of crude should be talking of importation and not how to revamp the existing refineries and build new ones to meet not only local demands but also for export.
He said: “The Congress, therefore, decided that we reject this unholy hike in the price of petrol and shall take active steps to ensure that whatsoever philosophy or idea that must have propelled it is erased in the process.
"We shall also ensure that this government removes all bottlenecks that make supply of the product to the citizenry difficult. To this end, we resolve that the federal government reverses its illegal decision to hike the pump price of PMS to N145/litre between now and Tuesday midnight.
“A Joint Action Committee to fine-tune the strategies and actions for this struggle has been set-up for a mass action.”
Meanwhile, leaders of the nation’s oil workers have said a nationwide strike was not the immediate solution to last Wednesday’s hike in the pump price of petrol.


more here
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/641016/


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