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Tuberculosis Noon Conference

Post Date:

2013-10-24

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This effort ended in 2015. As part of the BJGMC-Johns Hopkins India Fogarty Training Program, from 2013-2015 CCGHE hosted the live Tuberculosis Noon Conference webcast. Led by Drs. Maunank Shah, Jonathan Golub, and Richard Chaisson, these webcast meetings brought together Johns Hopkins TB...

RePORT: C-TRIUMPH: Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership

Post Date:

2013-09-28

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

NIRT

Collaboratively funded by the US NIH, India’s Department of Biotechnology [DBT], and Indian Council of Medical Research, the Cohort for TB Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH) is an Indo-US research consortium that is part of RePORT India, a countrywide consortium for TB research...

RePORT: C-TRIUMPH: Substudy on Assessing the Association of Indoor Air Pollution with Tuberculosis in Adult Women and Children under 5 Years of Age

Post Date:

2013-09-15

Countries:

India

Addressing social and environmental risk factors contributing to TB disease is becoming increasingly important for national TB programs. We are leveraging the pediatric participants in 1,100 homes participating in the C-TRIUMPH study, enhancing data collection regarding household and individual...

Ecobiosocial Approach for Dengue Vector Control

Post Date:

2013-09-15

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Colombia

Dengue is a major public health concern in the Region of the Americas. Working in a dengue endemic area of Colombia, the Centro de Estudios e Investigación en Salud (CEIS) Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá conducting a multisite study focused on improved dengue prevention. CCGHE and Fundacion Santa Fe d...

Perceptions and Acceptability of mHealth Interventions: A Mixed Methods Study Using emocha®

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2013-09-14

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Uganda

This comprehensive formative research study was designed to help guide the development and implementation of novel, task-shifting mHealth HIV/AIDS care interventions at a community-based HIV/AIDS clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Using emocha®, important knowledge was gained on acceptability and...

Community Home Based India Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (COMBIND)

Post Date:

2013-09-02

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

CCGHE is assessing whether equipping Community Health Workers with mobile health technology and involving them in technology training and personal empowerment seminars can help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. CHWs who care for HIV + pregnant and nursing women are using the emocha...

Epidemiological Assessment of Pediatric Tuberculosis in Pune, India, through Contact Tracing

Post Date:

2013-06-10

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India

This study ended in June 2016. Approximately 1 million new cases of Tuberculosis occur among children each year around the world, with a large number of these cases occurring among indigent populations without access to adequate healthcare facilities (World Health Organization). Due to their high...

Hair Concentrations of Anti-tuberculosis Drugs Among HIV-infected and Uninfected Children in India

Post Date:

2013-05-07

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

NIRT

In the developing world, tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of mortality among HIV-infected children, a population where measuring treatment adherence and drug levels is difficult. We propose an innovative therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) tool that measures drug concentration in hair samples to...

TB Case Conference

Post Date:

2013-02-25

Countries:

United States

CCGHE broadcasts live TB Case Conferences and provides a global audience with open access to all live and archived webcasts via the CCGHE website. Hosted by Dr. Maunank Shah (Johns Hopkins), this case-based conference serves as a forum where clinicians caring for individuals with active TB can...

Impact of Diabetes on TB Treatment Outcomes

Post Date:

2013-02-01

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

DY Patil

CCGHE, the JHU Center for TB Research and BJGMC have been awarded a $2.5 million dollar NIH grant (2013-2018) to conduct a study to evaluate treatment outcomes among Indian patients with both diabetes mellitus and active TB. This study is assessing the prevalence of impaired glucose or frank...

Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India

Post Date:

2013-01-10

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

DY Patil

Evaluate etiology of acute fever and bacterial drug resistance patterns among adults and children in India.

Feasibility and Acceptability of Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Alcohol Use Among African American Men Who Have Sex With Men in Baltimore

Post Date:

2013-01-01

Countries:

United States

This study provides evidence to support the feasibility and acceptability of using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA ) methods for collecting data on alcohol use among African American men who have sex with men living in urban settings. These data provide the basis for future studies of EMA-...

ONCOGRID: An mHealth Approach to Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancer in Rural South India

Post Date:

2012-11-01

Countries:

India

This study ended February 7, 2017. The Indian sub-continent is burdened with 80% of the world’s patients with oral cancer, and delay in oral cancer diagnosis is one of the major problems that leads to poor treatment outcomes (V. Shanta, R. Swaminathan, R. Rama. Cancer Control 2013). Current...

Project Connect Baltimore: Connecting Young Males to Sexual/Reproductive Healthcare

Post Date:

2012-10-01

Countries:

United States

To design, implement and evaluate a male-friendly and culturally appropriate guide for increasing access to and use of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing and sexual/reproductive healthcare (SRHC) among African American and Latino males.

Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis in HIV-infected and Uninfected Young Children in India

Post Date:

2012-07-24

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of morbidity/mortality in HIV-infected individuals in India. India has the world's highest burden of HIV and TB, and since children acquire HIV/TB from their caregivers, active TB is highly prevalent (14-67.5%) among HIV-infected young children in India...

A5288: MULTIOCTAVE, Management Using the Latest Technologies in Resource-limited Settings to Optimize Combination Therapy After Viral Failure

Post Date:

2012-07-16

Countries:

India

This is a mult-country clinical trial being conducted in Brazil, Haiti, India, Kenya, Malawi, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia. A5288 is a multi-step, open-label phase IV, prospective, interventional strategy study in resource-limited settings (RLS) for HIV-infected participants...

RePORT India

Post Date:

2012-06-30

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RePORT India is a joint venture between the Indian and US governments. The Indo-US Vaccine Action Program, a collaboration between the Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and the US NIH, is co-funding six teams of India- and US-based...

Analysis of Data Collected from the Evaluation of Community-Based Education, Research and Service (COBERS)

Post Date:

2012-06-12

Countries:

Uganda

This effort ended in June 2015. Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS), the Medical Schools at Gulu University (GU), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Kampala International University (KIU) and Busitema University (BU) came together with Johns Hopkins University...

C-TRIUMPH Pilot Study: Burden and Risk Factors for Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Pune, India

Post Date:

2012-05-29

Countries:

India

Clinical Sites:

BJGMC

This pilot study ended in April 2015. Drug resistant TB (MDR-TB and XDR-TB) is increasing worldwide. Although 20% of all global TB cases occur in India, current estimates of the burden of MDR-TB in India are limited. A well-characterized TB clinical cohort, household cohort and control cohort would...

Tuberculosis (TB) Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention Course

Post Date:

2012-01-01

Countries:

India

To strengthen tuberculosis (TB) clinical care and research in India and Pakistan, CCGHE collaborated with BJGMC, the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) and Indus Hospital to develop and deploy the Tuberculosis (TB) Diagnosis, Treatment ,and Prevention course. Originally developed as a...