Bhekisisa: Help us choose a winner
- 05 Apr 2013 00:00 - Staff Reporter
- One of our reader letters will win a one-year digital subscription to the Mail & Guardian. Help us decide who deserves it.
Funding crisis looms large
- 28 Mar 2013 00:00 - Indira Govender
- HIV counsellors play a vital role in Lesotho's health system, but the money is running out.
Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines
- 26 Mar 2013 09:47 - IRIN News
- SA's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new TB cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries.
Opinion: TB cannot be kept behind bars
- 22 Mar 2013 00:00 - Harry Hausler
- World TB Day is on March 24: We look at plans to curb the disease's spread – in prisons and beyond.
SADC countries tackle TB with new agreement
- 20 Mar 2013 16:28 - Jenni Evans
- Southern African health officials and international agencies will sign an agreement in Swaziland to reduce TB and HIV in the region's mining sector.
A 'shocking' disregard for generics
- 15 Mar 2013 10:54 - Mara Kardas-Nelson
- Many drugs cost far more in South Africa than in countries with strict patent-vetting processes.
ConCourt makes landmark TB ruling
- 11 Dec 2012 17:07 - Faeeza Ballim
- The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a former awaiting trial detainee who contracted TB while in Pollsmoor prison.
Mining drives spread of TB in Africa, says new report
- 02 Jun 2010 07:26 - Staff Reporter
- Mining operations in Africa could be driving the whole continent's tuberculosis epidemic, a new Oxford-led study has found.
TB hits health workers
- 17 May 2010 14:11 - Faranaaz Parker
- Several hundred healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal have been treated.
Prison a breeding ground for Aids and TB
- 18 Dec 2009 12:07 - Mara Kardas-Nelson
- Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa's under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.
Death in the Free State
- 30 Oct 2009 13:36 - Xolile Ntutu
- People in need of treatment are dying because hospitals are desperate for funds, writes Xolile Ntutu
SA leads hunt for killer TB vaccine
- 05 Jun 2009 09:43 - Wendell Roelf
- Baby Hisinawa is permanently semi-comatose after TB spread to his brain, his stiff body shivering as a doctor pushes a rubber tube down his nose.
Leading the Aids battle
- 13 Feb 2009 06:00 - Nosimilo Ndlovu
- Nosimilo Ndlovu interviewed Michel Sidibé, the new executive director of UNAIDS, the coordinating body of the United National in the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
Drug resistant TB on the rise
- 08 Jul 2008 14:55 - Sarah Boseley
- A drive to tackle the tide of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation last week.
TB gets trickier
- 08 Jul 2008 06:00 - Belinda Beresford
- South Africa has the world's fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.
Ten TB patients back in PE hospital
- 16 Jun 2008 13:57 - Staff Reporter
- Ten out of 19 patients who escaped from a TB hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found -- but nine others are still missing.
Call for cooperation between HIV, TB programmes
- 10 Nov 2007 08:07 - Staff Reporter
- Lives are being lost in many countries through lack of cooperation between tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/Aids health programmes, a senior United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids official said in Cape Town on Friday. Dr Alasdair Reid was speaking at a media briefing held alongside a major conference on lung health in the city.
