Ten thousand children were infected with HIV in Asia and the Pacific in 2023, roughly 30 each day. Although PMTCT services ...

Children on higher-dose tuberculosis treatment regimens, as per 2010 World Health Organization guidelines, experience more ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

Objective A ‘cluster’ is an area with a higher occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) than would be expected in an average random distribution of that area. Tuberculosis clustering is commonly reported in ...

The field is being taken over by hostile forces. To fight, it must dedicate itself to something larger than saving lives at ...

Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for ...

Objectives: To evaluate the contribution of Ultra to the diagnosis of pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Methods: We analyzed prospective data from children and adolescents with presumed PTB ...

Each day more than 500 children younger than 15 years die from tuberculosis. Considerable progress has been made to control tuberculosis, but the impact on reducing the burden of childhood ...

More than 1 million children fall ill with TB each year and more than half go undiagnosed or unreported, according to the World Health Organization. Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Early childhood education workers face significant challenges, including low pay, high stress, and health disparities, which can negatively impact childcare quality and children's development.