Diagnostics for tuberculosis - Global demand and market potential
World Health Organization on behalf of the Special Programme for Research
and Training in Tropical Diseases 2006
Available online as PDF file [206p.] at:
http://www.who.int/tdr/TBDI_full.pdf
Press release – 25 October 2006:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr61/en/index.html
“….Every year there are 8.8 million new active TB cases and nearly 2 million
TB deaths worldwide – 5,000 every day – mostly in the poorest communities of
the developing world. One third of the world’s population has latent TB
which may later develop into an active form of the disease. TB has also
become the leading cause of death among people with HIV.
Multidrug-resistance is also a growing problem. A key challenge for the
public health community is to be able to effectively diagnose patients so
that valuable resources and medicines are not wasted on misdiagnosis and
repeat treatments.
Despite huge advances in technology, most countries around the world are
still using the same microscopy examination of sputum that was used over 100
years ago. With only 40-60% test sensitivity under field conditions, this
falls as low as 20% when patients are co-infected with HIV. Preventive
therapy effectively reduces progression to active disease, but today there
is no way to predict who is at greatest risk and who could gain the most
from treatment.
The lack of accurate diagnosis leads to an unacceptable burden of human
suffering and to a waste of precious resources in poor countries. Without
the right diagnostic tools, we cannot stop the TB epidemic. Developing new
diagnostics is one of the six elements of the Global Plan to Stop TB:
2006-2015. This is the first comprehensive report of its kind that
identifies potential future markets for a range of diagnostics in three
major testing areas developed and tested for use in resource poor
settings….”
Content:
Executive Summary
CHAPTER 1 Global agenda for TB control
CHAPTER 2 Overview of current TB diagnostics .
CHAPTER 3 Current TB diagnostics market
CHAPTER 4 Improving the technology
CHAPTER 5 Potential market for new TB diagnostics .
CHAPTER 6 The socioeconomic burden of TB
CHAPTER 7 The business environment for TB diagnostics
Country Profiles
Glossary
References
37th Union World Conference on Lung Health of the International Union
Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
The theme of this conference is: Strengthening human resources for better
lung health
Palais des Congrès in Paris, France, from 31 October to 4 November 2006
URL http://www.worldlunghealth.org/Conf2006/
Human resources are the key to successful, high quality health
services. It will be very difficult to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals without well trained, dedicated and motivated health personnel. …..”
Nils Billo and Enis Baris
In partnership with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung
Disease, kaisernetwork.org is the official webcaster providing access to the
daily developments that take place at the conference in Paris. URL
www.kaisernetwork.org/paris2006 .
· Daily Conference Updates
· Session Webcasts, Podcasts, and Transcripts
· Newsmaker Interviews to provide analysis of current issues in the
fight against TB.
· GlobalHealthReporting.org TB/Malaria Weekly Report
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