As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under pressure
If all of its National Institutes of Health funding falls away, the country could lose 70% of its medical research capacity
Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in
In December, the Global Fund and the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief committed to funding the roll-out of lenacapavir in countries they support
Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US
About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes
Antagonism and tension are inherent in our being but we can change the conversation
Despite being a preventable and curable disease, about 150 people died from TB every day in South Africa in 2022
About 83 out of every 100 people in our country depend on the public sector for their health care
Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent
The need for a new tuberculosis vaccine is as urgent as ever, and now a local pharmaceutical company is joining the race to find one
By 2030, the planet is likely to be warmer, undermining the fight against tuberculosis
In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis at the United Nations General Assembly have been met
The judge said the need to widen access to first line ART and TPT therapy on a community level was a dire need
The only anti-tuberculosis shot we have is the century-old BCG vaccine given to infants, whose protection only lasts for 10 to 20 years
Nhe new guidelines say anyone who has a big chance of getting infected can get access to preventive medicines
TB was the leading cause of teenage deaths between 2008 and 2018 in South Africa
Claimants detail struggles to access compensation
Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists
Researchers struggle to understand how teenagers experience tuberculosis treatment, and they haven’t done enough to ask, experts at last week’s seventh South African TB conference argued
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover
Sex education will help prevent new HIV infections, expert says
Miss South Africa 2018 and Miss Universe runner-up Dr Tamaryn Green wants better working conditions for patients and doctors. As a TB and Covid-19 survivor herself, she talks to Denvor de Wee about her competitiveness, her love of nature and her imminent wedding
The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor health over the years.
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
Beneficiaries will now be able to apply to get money from the settlement almost two years after the Johannesburg high court ruled on the matter.
More men than women have tuberculosis and 82% are in the 15 to 24 age group
While data is still trickling in on how much the pandemic affects health systems, there are far-reaching consequences for people living with HIV and tuberculosis.
It is imperative that we train healthcare workers and participate in continent-wide collaboration
The focus may have been on urban nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, but those in rural areas suffer similar fates. However, very little is known about how they have been able to cope
More than a quarter of prisoners have not been convicted of anything, they just couldn’t meet bail requirements
Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach