Short-course

Short-course antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy and labor has proven very effective in reducing the risk of HIV spread from mother to child in both the industrialized world and in resource-poor settings.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: Saving the Lives of Mothers Worldwide M.D. Susan Blumenthal 2010

Short-course antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy and labor has proven very effective in reducing the risk of HIV spread from mother to child in both the industrialized world and in resource-poor settings.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: Saving the Lives of Mothers Worldwide 2010

However all is not that bleak – India has certainly made major strides in TB care and control, testing more than 40 million people for TB, rolling out anti-TB treatment to more than 9 million sputum-positive patients since 1997, every month more than 100,000 patients are put on Directly-Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) treatment, with more than 85% cure rate in sputum-positive patients, under the Revised National TB control Programme (RNTCP).

National partnership for TB care and control is shaping up in India 2008

In 1995 it began the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) in Colony 33 in Kemorovo.

The Prisoners' Plague 2008

Without health care workers, the fight against TB, which currently relies on effective implementation of the WHO-recommended Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course will be virtually impossible.

Southern Africa���s TB Response Needs Integrated Approach 2007

Short-course world championships will be coming up in October, but if you need something to hold you over until then, take a look at our swimming recap.

USATODAY.com - Backstroking through the swimming events 2004

Short-course swimming never really happened for me during my career, for various reasons, and my best swims came in a 50m pool rather than 25m.

An Autobiography Heyns, Penny & Lemke, Gary 2002

Short-course (Dots) could cure more than 90 percent of tuberculosis patients who complied with their short course treatment.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Although TB control had improved and had been fully integrated into primary health care and decentralised to district level with the government's Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (Dots), it was still killing people, said Weyer.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

As all the eleven countries participating have adopted the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy to control TB, better DOTS implementation strategies will also be discussed.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999