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Naik SN . The crisis in maternal TB: a case-based discussion of research gaps. Speaker. Confronting the crisis: emerging research in maternal-child TB Symposium. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November 2, 2019.

Is there a connection between gestational diabetes and TB?

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2019-11-02

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Alexander M . Is there a connection between gestational diabetes and TB? Speaker. Confronting the crisis: emerging research in maternal-child TB Symposium.50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November 2, 2019.

Increased moxifloxacin dosing among MDR-TB patients with low-level resistance to moxifloxacin did not improve treatment outcomes in a tertiary care centre in Mumbai, India

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2019-11-02

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Hinduja Hospital

Tornheim JA , Gajjar I, Shivakumar SVBY, Gupte AN, Kishore G, Karane M, Rodrigues C, Gupta A, Udwadia ZF. Increased moxifloxacin dosing among MDR-TB patients with low-level resistance to moxifloxacin did not improve treatment outcomes in a tertiary care centre in Mumbai, India. 50th Union World...

Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold in Tube (QFT-GIT) and QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in pregnant women in India

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2019-11-01

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Kulkarni V , Bhosale R, Jain D, Deshpande P, Naik N, Alexander M, Patil N, Gupte N, Gupta A, Mathad J. Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold in Tube (QFT-GIT) and QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in pregnant women in India. Poster presentation...

Six-week culture conversion predicts tuberculosis treatment outcomes

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2019-11-01

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Pradhan N , Kagal A, Gupte N, Gaikwad S, Barthwa M, Gupta A, Golub JE, Mave V. Six-week culture conversion predicts tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November 2, 2019.

Association of latent TB infection in pregnancy with perinatal health outcomes in an Indian cohort

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2019-11-01

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Graham H , Bhosale R, Alexander M, Kinikar A, Khwaja S, Patil N, Mathad J, Shivakoti S, Gupta A. Association of latent TB infection in pregnancy with perinatal health outcomes in an Indian cohort. Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November...

Inappropriate postpartum weight loss may predict development of active TB: Findings from a cohort study in Pune, India

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2019-11-01

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Alexander M , Bhosale R, Naik S, Gupte N, Jain D, Patil N, Pradhan N, Mave V, Gupta A, Mathad J. Inappropriate postpartum weight loss may predict development of active TB: Findings from a cohort study in Pune, India. Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India...

Does treatment of infertile women with probable genital tuberculosis improve fertility outcome?

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2019-11-01

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Naik SN , Chandanwale A, Kadam D, Sambarey PW, Dhumal G, DeLuca A, Jain D, Gupta A, Bollinger R, Mave V. Does treatment of infertile women with probable genital tuberculosis improve fertility outcome? Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-...

Tuberculosis infection and inflammation among HIV-infected adults in India

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2019-10-31

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Kulkarni V . Tuberculosis infection and inflammation among HIV-infected adults in India. Oral Presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November 2, 2019.

Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among household contacts of MDR TB patients

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2019-10-31

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Baliashvili D , Gandhi NR, Kim S, Gupta A, Churchyard G, Swindells S, Hesseling A, Hughes M, Shah S for the ACTG 5300/IMPAACT I2003 PHOENIx Feasibility Study Team. Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among household contacts of MDR TB patients. Poster presentation. 50th Union World...

High prevalence of tuberculosis infection in children living in households of MDR-TB patients

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2019-10-31

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Kim S , Wu X, Hughes M, Mendoza-Ticona A, Churchyard G, Swindells S, Shah NS, Gupta A, Hesseling A for the A5300/I2003 PHOENIx Feasibility Study Team. High prevalence of tuberculosis infection in children living in households of MDR-TB patients. Short oral presentation. 50th Union World Conference...

Assessing TB-related knowledge and stigma and associated risk factors among pregnant women in low-resource settings of Pune, India

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2019-10-30

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Mehta S , Murrill M, Suryavanshi N, Bhosale R, Naik S, Patil N, Gupta A, Mathad J, Shivakoti R, Alexander M. Assessing TB-related knowledge and stigma and associated risk factors among pregnant women in low-resource settings of Pune, India. Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung...

Association of latent TB infection in pregnancy with perinatal health outcomes in an Indian cohort

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2019-10-30

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Bhosale R , Graham H, Alexander M, Kinikar A, Khwaja S, Patil N, Gupta A, Mathad J, Shivakoti R. Association of latent TB infection in pregnancy with perinatal health outcomes in an Indian cohort. Poster presentation. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November...

Why pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of TB medicines matter in the management of MDR-TB

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2019-10-30

Dooley K . Why pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of TB medicines matter in the management of MDR-TB. Lecture. 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Hyderabad, India. October 30-November 2, 2019.

Dr. Kathleen Page's Remarks to UN Security Council on Venezuela

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2019-04-09

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Venezuela

Thank you Mr. President and members of the Security Council for the opportunity to present our findings here today. I am Kathleen Page, a physician and faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The findings that I am presenting today were published last week by Human Rights Watch together with...

Pitfalls in Chest X-ray Scoring of Patients Receiving Treatment for Active Tuberculosis in Pune, India

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2019-03-28

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Orsini E , Gupte A, Paradkar M, Jain D, Raskar S, Lokhande R, Mave V, Gupta A. Pitfalls in Chest X-ray Scoring of Patients Receiving Treatment for Active Tuberculosis in Pune, India. Johns Hopkins Global Health Day 2019. Baltimore, MD. March 28, 2019.

Pregnancy is associated with decreased serum isoniazid levels in women living with HIV

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2019-03-07

Gausi K , Denti P, Weisner L, Wallis C, Onyango-Makumbi C, Chipato T, Theron G, Bradford S, Costello D, Browning R, Chakhtoura N, Weinberg A, Montepiedra G, Gupta A and the IMPAACT P1078 (TB APPRISE) Study Group Team. Pregnancy is associated with decreased serum isoniazid levels in women living...

Preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection

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2019-03-06

Gupta A. Choices and dilemmas: Preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection. Coinfections: Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, and HIV Symposium. CROI 2019. Seattle, Washington. March 4-7, 2019.

BWI CTU: Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit

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2007-02-02

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Comprising clinical trial sites at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Whitman Walker Health in Washington, DC, and the BJGMC-CCGHE collaboration in Pune, India, the Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit (BWI-CTU) is one of only 25 international HIV/TB clinical trial sites funded by the...

BJGMC-JHU Fogarty HIV-TB Training Program

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2007-01-01

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Funded by the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, the JHU Fogarty program has nearly 20 years of success with providing training, professional development, and mentorship to clinicians and scientists in low and middle income countries. CCGHE's latest efforts in this...

Impact of Malnutrition on HIV Treatment Failure in Resource-limited Settings

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2009-04-02

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This study, NWCS 319, was terminated August 20, 2019. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has reduced morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected persons worldwide. However, early treatment failure (i.e. WHO stage 3 or 4 illnesses or death during the first 24 months of HAART) is more than 3...

Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH)

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2013-09-28

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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...

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

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2012-05-29

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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...

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

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2012-07-24

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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...

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

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2013-05-07

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NIRT

This study was terminated May 15, 2017. 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...

A Prospective Study Evaluating the Role of Cryptococcal Antigen Screening among HIV-infected Adults with Low CD4 Counts

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2011-01-01

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This prospective observational study aimed to evaluate the burden of cryptococcal disease among approximately 200 HIV-infected adults with low CD4 cell counts in Pune, India to determine whether a Cryptococcal screening strategy should be the standard of care among patients with advanced HIV...

Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV: India SWEN Study

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2002-06-07

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This study was officially terminated August 2018. Primary and secondary analyses of the India SWEN study, an NIH-funded phase III randomized controlled trial of an extended nevirapine prophylaxis regimen among 783 HIV-infected pregnant women and their breastfed infants in Pune, India.

Assessing the Association of Indoor Air Pollution with Tuberculosis in Adult Women and Children under 5 Years of Age

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2013-09-15

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This study is conducted the Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH) under the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT) Network, an international TB consortium. Addressing social and environmental risk factors contributing to TB...

Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection and Th1 Immune Response in Pregnant Women in India

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2014-09-01

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NIRT

This study was terminated April 16, 2018. Tuberculosis (TB) disease is a major cause of mortality among Indian women of reproductive age; approximately 20-50% of women in India are latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Due to immune changes of pregnancy, women are particularly at...

Tuberculosis Noon Conference

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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...

TB Case Conference

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2013-02-25

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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...

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

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2012-11-01

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Democratic Republic of Congo

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...

Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases (ID) Grand Rounds

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CCGHE broadcasts monthly Johns Hopkins (JH) Infectious Diseases (ID) Grand Rounds to centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an initial inroad to improve clinical education. ID Grand Rounds is an educational conference where JH faculty and trainees discuss clinical cases from the JH Hospital...

EXposure Assessment in Current Time (EXACT) study

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2008-11-01

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Injection drug users (IDUs) are a marginalized population with substantial disparities in healthcare outcomes, especially among the HIV-infected IDU population. The EXACT study, which ended in 2013, was designed to optimize time to antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation and retention-in-care...

Technology-enhanced Peer Navigation to Improve Injection Drug User (IDU) Engagement in HIV Care

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2000-01-01

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This study is evaluating an mHealth-enhanced peer navigation intervention for improving retention-in-care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for out-of-care, HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs). The CCGHE-developed emocha® is assisting peer navigators (former IDUs successfully...

DOmestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation and Smart Phones (DOVE)

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2012-01-01

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