Latest articles on TB

.lazy-loader-background-element-1.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2016/03/e1c62e80-2016-03-15-irr-urges-lawmakers-to-assist-poverty-stricken-prisoners-image-696x392.jpg) }

Bail could be the key to reducing severe prison overcrowding

Coronavirus Safura Abdool Karim - 14 May 2020

More than a quarter of prisoners have not been convicted of anything, they just couldn’t meet bail requirements

.lazy-loader-background-element-2.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2013/04/277b2ccf-2013-04-12-confidential-car-battle-unified-once-divided-soldiers-image-696x392.jpg) }

Pandemics: A social justice issue

Article Ayesha Jacub - 25 Mar 2020

Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach

Safeguarding social justice in a time of social distance

Article Open Letter - 22 Mar 2020

People who are self-isolating — the middle and upper class, especially — must take care not to endanger other lives in the process. We must all be human to the humans around us

Changing our world requires insubordination

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Aug 2019

We need to resist the patriarchy, racism, sexism and capitalist greed that is still prevalent on the globe

.lazy-loader-background-element-5.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/06/555fa19d-un-attacks-ghastly-conditions-in-libya-migrant-detention-centres-696x445.jpeg) }

UN attacks ‘ghastly’ conditions in Libya migrant detention centres

Africa Agency - 10 Jun 2019

According to UN figures, some 3 400 migrants and refugees remain detained in Tripoli, which has seen a surge in fighting since early April

The workforce that makes our health system work

Article Ofentse Mboweni - 10 Apr 2019

Community health workers need to be supported so that policies can be tangibly effective

Hachimoji DNA: Stirring debate

Article Donrich Thaldar, Bonginkosi Shozi & Michaela Steytler - 29 Mar 2019

South African scientists need to develop health technologies that respond to our society’s most pressing needs

.lazy-loader-background-element-8.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/03/58997e57-00-3hp-latent-tb-treatment-short-course-guidelines-regimen-isoniazid-rifapentine-696x445.jpeg) }

This kills more South Africans than any other disease. There’s a new way to stop it

Article Bhekisisa Team - 28 Mar 2019

One in four people carry this potentially deadly bug? Now a new shorter treatment can prevent it from making you sick.

A poison by any other name

Article Ellapen Rapiti - 22 Mar 2019

It is not just the person who drinks alcohol in excess who is harmed; the family suffers too

.lazy-loader-background-element-10.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/03/2b01fd9d-00-watch-live-nsp-hiv-tb-how-far-is-south-africa-in-the-fight-against-hiv-696x445.jpeg) }

WATCH: How far is South Africa in the fight against HIV and TB? Find out.

Article Bhekisisa Team Author - 13 Nov 2018

South Africa boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme but are provinces ready to take the lead?

.lazy-loader-background-element-11.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/c466ebb5-00-bhekisisa-presents-from-paper-to-provinces-tracking-sas-hivtb-plan-696x445.jpeg) }

Bhekisisa presents: From paper to provinces — tracking SA’s HIV/TB plan

Article Bhekisisa Team Author - 24 Oct 2018

#TrackingTheNSP: Ahead of World Aids Day, hear just how far provinces have come putting the national plan into practice.

.lazy-loader-background-element-12.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/efad7422-00-no-amount-of-alcohol-is-safe-drinking-tuberculosis-696x445.jpeg) }

Why this legal drug may put you at risk for a killer infectious disease

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 8 Oct 2018

That tot or two might be putting you at risk for...an infectious disease? Find out what you need to know.

Showdown: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 28 Sep 2018

When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next.

.lazy-loader-background-element-14.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/e95d42b7-sassa-should-not-have-disqualified-post-office-treasury-letter-696x445.jpeg) }

SA experimental TB vaccine is the first in almost a century to slash new TB cases

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 25 Sep 2018

Scroll down to read the latest trial results as part of our live blog from the UN's recent high level meeting on TB

.lazy-loader-background-element-15.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/289775bc-what-to-expect-from-the-worlds-first-high-level-un-meeting-on-tb-696x445.jpeg) }

What to expect from the world’s first high-level UN meeting on TB

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 25 Sep 2018

Ramaphosa and Motsoaledi are expected to draw high praise at a UN meeting this week. Find out why.

vital information

The Mail & Guardian’s essential coverage of the ongoing coronavirus crisis is free to read for everyone.

If you would like to support us, please consider taking out a subscription.

Latest

Coronavirus

‘Lockdown quarter’ sees jobs bloodbath

Sarah Smit - 29 Sep 2020

The decline in employment has been accompanied by a larger increase in economic inactivity, resulting in a 42% expanded unemployment rate

National

Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’

Lester Kiewit - 26 Sep 2020

The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase

National

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

Eyaaz Matwadia - 26 Sep 2020

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local leagues is growing. Eyaaz Matwadia boots up for the first instalment of Gaming Corner

Press Releases

Special Reports

UNISA hosts its first TEDx event

[email protected] - 26 Sep 2020

The Elephant in the Room Tedx event at UNISA will help to create meaningful change in South Africa through the power of ideas

Special Reports

SA’s SEZs create decent jobs

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

The Special Economic Zone programme is used as a critical tool for accelerating the country’s industrial development agenda

Special Reports

The new normal in tourism is business unusual

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

Innovation and changing trends have kept some tour operators in the green, though most have struggled during the tight lockdown

Special Reports

TENDER NO. BOBS 05/2020 PROVISION OF CERTIFICATION SERVICES TO BOTSWANA BUREAU OF STANDARDS QUALITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

The Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) invites tenders from reputable companies for the provision of certification services

Special Reports

The Galaxy Z Fold2 smartphone breaks all the rules

special reports - 25 Sep 2020

The Galaxy Z Fold2 has meaningful innovations that offer users enhanced refinements and some unique foldable user experiences

Special Reports

Adventures, ghost tours and big skies await visitors to the Cape Winelands

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

All of the CWDM destinations are accessible within a 30- to 120-minute drive from Cape Town, creating real value for money

Special Reports

SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

Special Reports

Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs