Nhe new guidelines say anyone who has a big chance of getting infected can get access to preventive medicines
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 get more patients on to treatment, sooner.
Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.