The regimen for children is bitter adult drugs, which are taken over an extended period – and it’s worse in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

An interdisciplinary study based at UCT has opened treatment of tuberculosis to cultural considerations.

Médecins Sans Frontières reports on their success with decentralised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis care. With a new TB test and a community-based approach, they are able to…

Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.