Links: Tuberculosis - International - Medical Condition
Columbia - Red Colombiana de Tuberculosis
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), declaró en abril de 1.993 que la Tuberculosis (TBC) había adquirido carácter de urgencia mundial, debido principalmente a una falta de atención a la enfermedad por parte de muchos gobiernos con programas de control mal administrados, el crecimiento demográfico y en los últimos tiempos el vínculo entre la TBC y la infección con el Virus de la Inmunodeficiencia Humana (VIH). Según ésta Organización, cerca de la tercera parte de la población mundial está infectada con el bacilo Mycobacterium tuberculosis. American Medical Student Association
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), with a half-century history of medical student activism, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. Founded in 1950 to provide medical students a chance to participate in organized medicine, AMSA began under the auspices of the Atlanta TB Prevention Coalition
The Atlanta Tuberculosis Prevention Coalition emphasizes collaboration and coordination of activities among all agencies serving persons who have or are at risk for tuberculosis in the Atlanta area. Austria - Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Lungenerkrankungen und Tuberkulose (ÖGLUT)
In Austrian/English Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Lungenerkrankungen und Tuberkulose (ÖGLUT) wurde unmittelbar nach dem 2. Weltkrieg gegründet. Sie hat sich jenseits sämtlicher bürokratischer, behördlicher und sonstiger amtlicher Bereiche entwickelt und dabei ein wesentliches Ziel gesetzt: die gemeinsame Entwicklung wissenschaftlicher und fachärztlicher Betreuung des medizinischen Bereiches "Lungenerkrankungen" Brown University TB-HIV Research Laboratory
The TB/HIV Research Laboratory is dedicated to research into the prevention and treatment of two infectious diseases of global importance - human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) Canada's Role in fighting Tuberculosis
A "cure" was found for tuberculosis in the 1940s, but it is not gone from Canada. Why does TB remain and what are Canadians doing about it? Dartmouth International Health Group
My project at the Mbagathi District Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, consisted of assessing and teaching health care workers about the need for constant surveillance and immunization for the 6 childhood immunizable diseases that KEPI (Kenya Expanded Program on Immunization) is working to contain or eradicate. The diseases are polio, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), turberculosis, tetanus, and hepatitis B. Most of the cases in the wards were tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, diarrhea/dehydration, and meningitis/malaria. India - Tuberculosis Research Centre
The Tuberculosis Research Centre(TRC), formerly known as the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre is a permanent research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It was established in 1955 jointly by the ICMR, World Health Organisation (WHO), the Government of Tamil Nadu (then Madras), the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) and the United States Public Health Services (USPHS) to determine the feasilibility, efficacy and safety of domiciliary chemotherapy for sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. TRC's famous "Madras Study" demonstrated that TB patients could be safely treated at home and revolutionized the management of this disease in India and all over the world. It released a number of beds in TB sanatoria and more importantly reduced capital costs. Japan Anti-TB Association
ALSO IN ENGLISH. TB is still the most common infectious disease in Japan. In 1997 alone there occurred 43 thousand new cases. One half of these were people aged 60 years or older. However outbreaks of group infection among young adults are now on the rise. There is also a problem of tuberculosis among non-Japanese people. National TB Centre
Excellent Site - easy to use and well presented. Information, Updates, Links. Well worth a visit. North Eastern Health Care Network, Melbourne Australia
The Public Health Division of the Victorian State Government Department of Human Services in Australia. The Public Health Division is committed to improving the health and well being of the whole population of Victoria in a way that addresses social inequality and the underlying determinants of health, empowers families and communities, uses evidence-based research, and ensures value for money. PHRI Russian TB Control Program
The tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in the Russian Federation has reached alarming proportions, particularly in the prison system. The Russian prisons act as an epidemiological pump releasing tens of thousands of active TB cases and hundreds of thousands of infected individuals into the community each year. The high rate of drug resistant TB among the prisoners, which cannot be cured with common TB drugs, is especially threatening. Young men enter prison and die even before their cases are tried in court, which may take up to 18 months. Russian TB epidemic poses global threat. Respiratory on the Web
Respiratory Therapy Societies/AARC Chapters/Related Medical Societies and Organizations Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
The purpose of these pages is to foster international collaborations between tuberculosis researchers. We hope that our layout helps you learn more about what we do here at Stanford, and about tuberculosis research in general. There are links to home pages of personnel, including those of the Principle Investigator here, Dr. Peter Small. A summary of research and a list of publications for the Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research are provided. Stop TB
The mission of Stop TB is to ensure that every person with TB has all the necessary information and access to treatment and cure; to protect vulnerable populations from TB and multidrug-resistant TB; and to prevent the unnecessary social and economic tolls of TB. TB Alert
TB Alert is a new charity, registered in 1998, set up to respond to the desperate global challenge of tuberculosis - the disease that never did really go away, and which today is killing millions of people every year. Since 1993, it has been considered a Global Emergency by the World Health Organisation The Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center
The Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center is a joint project of Harlem Hospital, Columbia University, Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the New York City Department of Health, and is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The First Comprehensive Web Site on TB
Lupin Laboratories was founded in 1968 by Mr. Desh Bandhu Gupta, a technocrat with a chemistry teaching background in one of the leading universities in India. Desh Bandhu Gupta is the Chairman and Managing Director of the Lupin Group of Companies which comprises of Lupin Laboratories, Lupin Chemicals, Lupin Agrochemicals and Lupin Chemicals (Thailand). D.B. Gupta holds a Masters Degree in Chemistry and started his career as a Professor of Chemistry. He launched Lupin Laboratories Limited in 1968 with a small capital of Rs. 5000/-. Brought up in a village, his vision was to set up a pharmaceutical company which would alleviate the adversities of the poor. With this object in mind, his first foray was in the area of tuberculosis which is the single largest killer disease in India. The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center
The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center creates, enhances, and disseminates resources and models of excellence to control and eliminate tuberculosis.The Center is dedicated to the memory of Francis J. Curry.
The Global TB Network
This is a resource centre for information about tuberculosis - about the disease itself, and also about training programmes, conferences, computer software, organisations, databases - anything that has anything to do with TB is here! The Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association (SATA)
SATA's mission is to eliminate TB, disseminate knowledge about TB and act as advocates for those suffering from it. This mission is supported by its commitment to providing best-in-class quality of relevant healthcare services with a BIG HEART to the community, especially to the needy and aged. The Specter of Tuberculosis
One third of the world's population is currently infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacillus and every second another person is newly infected with tuberculosis around the world. Each year an estimated 8 million people develop clinical disease and 1.87 million people die of TB. These staggering numbers make tuberculosis one of the leading infectious disease killers. The Trudeau Institute
Trudeau Institute is the leading independent research institute in the U.S. conducting research into understanding the functions of the body's immune system and learning how to strengthen these functions to fight tuberculosis, cancer, AIDS-related infections, and other life-threatening infectious diseases. The ultimate goal is to understand immunity sufficiently to develop new vaccine strategies. Tuberculosis Research Unit
The TBRU was established in 1994 by the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to support translational research in tuberculosis, turning basic research findings into useful tools for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. 