The Conversation5d
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
New York City was the first in the country to require that physicians report the names of TB patients in an effort ... When in 1985 it became possible to test for HIV, the virus that causes ...
Medscape19d
Factors Associated With Delayed Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Hospitalized Patients in a High TB and HIV Burden Setting
The main factors associated with diagnostic delay were extra-pulmonary TB and negative sputum smear. Current smoking was associated with an earlier diagnosis in our study. According to previously ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
Connecticut Post6d
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
HIV/AIDS – resistant patients at the forefront Debates around TB surveillance unfolded during a period in which both public health and medicine were highly paternalistic and authoritarian ...