That tot or two might be putting you at risk for…an infectious disease? Find out what you need to know.
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.
Scroll down to read the latest trial results as part of our live blog from the UN’s recent high level meeting on TB
Ramaphosa and Motsoaledi are expected to draw high praise at a UN meeting this week. Find out why.
Heads of state discussed one of the world’s biggest killers in New York this week — and it was Aaron Motsoaledi who got them together.
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Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez takes you inside SA’s national HIV and TB plan in just two minutes.
It’s been a steep learning curve for districts that sometimes don’t have the know-how — or the data — to write and track local plans.
SA has a chance to lead the world in realising Madiba’s dream this September as the United Nations convenes its first high level meeting on TB.
When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country’s nomads. This could help ease the pain.
It’s World TB Day. Here’s why human rights and TB responses go hand in hand.
How community health workers and data can help South Africa get more TB patients on treatment.
​The loss of one of SA’s most longstanding HIV activists comes when politics and dwindling resources are pitting stalwarts against each other.
A new pilot programme launched Friday will allow at least 200 people to access the latest treatment worth hundreds of thousands of rand.
New drug combinations tested in the country may be a lifeline to those with TB most unlikely to survive it.
Every year, almost 500 000 people in South Africa develop TB and only half will ever be cured – see why.
Today, SA is seeing fewer new TB cases and deaths than ever before.
Home is where the heart is, they say – it could also be the future of HIV testing.
Patients were no longer infectious after just two months of treatment — faster than almost all drugs ever recorded.
The global body heeds calls by SA health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for high-level meeting on age-old killer.
A high court has ruled that compensation to women who have to take care of sick miners could ease the gendered harms imposed by the industry.
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Gold mining giants are beginning to negotiate with mineworkers and their families.
Former detainees tell of being denied chronic medication and contracting diseases like TB while incarcerated in the overcrowded Cape Town facility.
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.
Tuberculosis kills more people than HIV. Show your support for people with TB by joining the WHO’s Unmask Stigma Challenge on World TB Day.
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/ 20 November 2015
But ridding the planet of curable and preventable tuberculosis will tax the world’s existing resources.
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/ 12 November 2015
A TB patient finally gets a disability grant and a woman has free access to the world’s most expensive drug.
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/ 3 November 2015
A report notes that TB rates sky-rocketed in the 1990s fuelled by the HIV epidemic, and warns of a similar situation with diabetes-related TB.
This week it was the mining companies’ turn to tell the court why they can’t be held responsible for the suffering of thousands of former mineworkers.
A UCT study says counselling is needed to keep tuberculosis sufferers on treatment, without which they risk developing more dangerous forms of TB.
Initiatives in the past four years have greatly increased inmates’ access to healthcare.
The situation of detainees in remand is so bad, it exceeds the punishment of incarceration.
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SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.