India’s dedicated journey towards tuberculosis (TB) elimination has been recognized globally, with a noteworthy 17.7% decline ...

2-step PPD (TB Skin Test): The 2-step tuberculin skin test takes 10 – 21 days to complete and 4 visits to a healthcare provider. The first PPD test is placed one day and read 48 hours later. The ...

In recent years, HIV has spread rapidly among people who inject drugs, because users sometimes share needles when they don’t ...

In recent years, HIV has spread rapidly among people who inject drugs, because users sometimes share needles when they don't have access to new ones. The government has repeatedly proposed a simple ...

Five months after it was first announced, NSW launches its home battery incentive, offering up to $2,400 discounts on solar storage and rebates to join VPPs.

Welcome to Week 10 of the 2024 NFL season. The trade deadline is here, and it's midseason.  The Kansas City Chiefs are the ...

Health reform focused on prevention is the key driver to protect Indonesia’s workforce and the country’s population at large ...

Tuberculosis was the leading killer among infectious diseases in 2023, the World Health Organization said in their 2024 ...

Advocacy groups, including Doctors Without Borders, have long called for the U.S. company Cepheid, which produces TB tests used in poorer countries, to make them available for $5 per test to ...

WHO said TB continues to mostly affect people in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Western Pacific; India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines and Pakistan account for more than half of the world’s ...

A programme supplying sterile injection equipment was stopped for months in Cape Town following complaints from residents, while a Durban service was closed for two years.In recent years, HIV has ...

This 1966 microscope photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, the organism responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis.