Study/Projects by Year (2013)

Evaluation of HIV Disease Burden in Hospitalized Patients at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2013-11-18
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Countries: 
India
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Clinical Sites: 
BJGMC
This study was terminated September 13, 2005. The goal of this project was to conduct both a retrospective and prospective epidemiological study of the burden of HIV disease at Sassoon General Hospital. The specific objectives of the study were to establish the proportion of...

Tuberculosis Noon Conference

Post Date: 
2013-10-24
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Countries: 
India
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Clinical Sites: 
BJGMC
DY Patil
Hinduja Hospital
NIRT
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...

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

Post Date: 
2013-09-28
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Countries: 
India
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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...

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

Post Date: 
2013-09-15
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Countries: 
India
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...

Ecobiosocial Approach for Dengue Vector Control

Post Date: 
2013-09-15
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Countries: 
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 conducted 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®

Post Date: 
2013-09-14
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Countries: 
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
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Countries: 
India
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Clinical Sites: 
BJGMC
This study ended May 14, 2019. 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...

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

Post Date: 
2013-06-10
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Countries: 
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
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Countries: 
India
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Clinical Sites: 
BJGMC
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...

TB Case Conference

Post Date: 
2013-02-25
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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
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Countries: 
India
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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
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Countries: 
India
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Clinical Sites: 
BJGMC
DY Patil
This study was terminated September 24, 2019. Evaluate etiology of acute fever and bacterial drug resistance patterns among adults and children in India.