According to the findings of the Reducing Activation of Tuberculosis by Improvement of Nutritional Status (RATIONS) trial, improved nutrition can reduce the incidence of all forms of TB by up to 40 per cent.
A South African pulmonologist has called on the country’s health authorities to increase efforts to find tuberculosis cases instead of waiting for patients to present at clinics when they are already at risk of dying.
QALAT (Pajhwok): The number of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) has increased by 25 percent in southern Zabul province amid absence of a special hospital