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.
A deal brokered with the health department guarantees free access but for how long?
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.
South Africa needs to increase its investment in science — if not, the country can’t beat HIV
Activists fear regulatory delays will come too late for many people who need delamanid and will also stall its release in neighbouring countries.
Tastier kid-friendly tablets will help take the guess work out of treating Kenya’s tiniest TB patients.
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.
Almost 300 000 South Africans will contract HIV this year. The country may be targeting a crucial five-year window to stem the tide of new infections.
As a food crisis unfolds in the country, prisons lack money to purchase even simple food stuffs such as maize flour and beans.
Gold mining giants are beginning to negotiate with mineworkers and their families.
The disease kills more than a million people a year but the world’s response to it is totally inadequate.
Former detainees tell of being denied chronic medication and contracting diseases like TB while incarcerated in the overcrowded Cape Town facility.
Available data shows significantly higher investment by public and philanthropic institutions in TB research than by the pharmaceutical industry.
A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can’t afford the fare.
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.
Media professionals and health workers wore surgical masks to fight TB stigma on World TB Day
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.
There are fears that, because the LAM measure is easily administered, it could be used when conditions call for more detailed analysis.
Pets can pass on tuberculosis and you can get it from eating contaminated meat or dairy products
South Africa lost nearly 100 000 people to TB last year – three-quarters of whom were HIV-positive. Reducing the burden will benefit the economy.
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/ 2 December 2015
The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.
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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.
The historic class-action suit brought by gravely ill former gold miners and their families will push the boundaries of the country’s court system.
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/ 15 October 2015
From taxi driver to TB-care champion, Zamani Dlamini brings hope to the sick in rural KwaZulu-Natal.