Kenya's TB Campaign Proves a Success
An increase in the number of public-health campaigns has seen a significant drop in the country's tuberculosis cases.
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Kenya:
Health Experts in New Drive to Fight TB
Nation, 5 October 2011
When her cough persisted more than two weeks, Ms Lucetha Nkatha decided to visit a health centre to seek treatment for what she thought was a seasonal flu. But this was the… Read more »
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Kenya:
'After I Stopped Taking My TB Medicine I Was a Criminal'
UNIRIN, 11 August 2011
A year ago, 35-year-old Daniel Ng'etich was arrested and jailed in his home town of Kapsabet, in Kenya's Rift Valley Province - his crime was failing to adhere to his tuberculosis… Read more »
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Kenya:
Failure to Complete Treatment Slowing Down War On Tuberculosis
Nation, 25 May 2011
Tuberculosis treatment should be improved if Kenya hopes to achieve a Millennium Development Goal target that calls for halting and reversing the prevalence of the disease by 2015. Read more »
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Kenya:
Tuberculosis Cases On the Decline After Public Education
Nation, 22 March 2011
Cases of tuberculosis are on the decline in Western Province, the region's TB and leprosy co-ordinator Dr Adala Ochieng' has said. Read more »
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East Africa:
Spread of Resistant Tuberculosis Fails to Catch World Attention
Nation, 27 September 2010
Treatment drugs are becoming weaker by the day. Such is the case with two types of tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant TB and extremely resistant TB, which are on the rise not only… Read more »
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For the first time in a decade, Kenya has registered a decline in the number of people suffering from tuberculosis on an annual basis.
The World Health Organisation has ... Read more »