The country’s health products regulator has received an application from vaccine manufacturer Pfizer for third-dose approval
New drugs are working on XDR-TB – but must be strictly controlled to prevent further resistance.
Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
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/ 27 January 2008
A guard in a surgical mask patrols a wire fence designed to keep dozens of patients with a lethal form of tuberculosis at Cape Town’s Brooklyn Chest hospital isolated from the rest of the world. Sufferers of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis, a near untreatable strain, battle boredom, depression and the side-effects of a daily palmful of pills.