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The rural battleground and our need for a ‘long covid’ database
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We must not just deploy healthcare resources to villages but also set up systems to monitor and study post-covid complications
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As the country awaits more reassuring findings following its dip in covid cases, a stark contrast waits to be addressed in its rural areas. India’s first wave was largely about the elderly population and big cities. The fight, hence, became more about containment than medical assistance. Now, with partial lockdowns, the virus spread has affected the country’s working-age population and tier 2 cities.
New Tuberculosis Drug launched
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A new short-course Tuberculosis (TB) Preventive Therapy (TPT) has been outdoored for the first time at Agormanya in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The new fixed-dose combination (FDC) with rifapentine and isoniazid termed “3HP” prevents people infected with TB from developing active TB and reduces the number of pills that people who need the treatment have to take every week from nine to three.
The launch in Ghana follows a recent global procurement agreement with Macleods made possible by the IMPAACT4TB project, funded by Unitaid and led by the Aurum Institute.
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