Mining operations in Africa could be driving the whole continent's tuberculosis epidemic, a new Oxford-led study has found.

Several hundred healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal have been treated.

Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa's under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.

People in need of treatment are dying because hospitals are desperate for funds, writes Xolile Ntutu

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.

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.

A drive to tackle the tide of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation last week.

South Africa has the world's fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.

Ten out of 19 patients who escaped from a TB hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found -- but nine others are still missing.

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.