The high court in Johannesburg has to decide how to process a case of this size, which mining companies say is impossible.
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.
The HIV and TB epidemics are being exacerbated by a chronic shortage of health workers in prisons.
SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.
A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city’s slums.
Workers afflicted with silicosis and/or TB launch historic class action lawsuit for compensation.
New research has bad news for millions of South Africans with high blood sugar: they are three times more likely to develop active tuberculosis.
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/ 28 October 2014
Compromising hopes of containing the disease, latent TB remains dormant for life for most people.
An interdisciplinary study based at UCT has opened treatment of tuberculosis to cultural considerations.
SA’s status as the country with the highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has spurred local research into prevention strategies and cures.
A study has found that child-focused interventions have significantly reduced HIV-infection rates in children under the age of five.
Research suggests that taking HIV medication while CD4 counts are higher than 350 does not reduce mortality in those who are co-infected.
Less than half of those treated for resistant strains of TB survive. It’s just not good enough.
Patients with drug resistant TB could benefit from a new drug regimen, which will be tested in clinical trials this year.
New drugs are working on XDR-TB – but must be strictly controlled to prevent further resistance.
Statistics South Africa says mortality figures show Capetonians have a longer life span that Tshwane residents.
Miners with silicosis and TB are entitled to a small payout, but don’t claim because they are kept in the dark about their rights.
A study has explained that a treatment, described as "radical" by researchers, has not helped cut down tuberculosis infections among SA gold miners.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with SA institutions to develop new medicines and vaccines for HIV, TB and malaria.
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/ 8 November 2013
Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.
India has dispatched an unlikely hero to promote tuberculosis awareness and battle its stigma.
Tuberculosis is still the number one cause of death in South Africa, accounting for 12% of the deaths that occurred in 2010.
Southern African health officials and international agencies will sign an agreement in Swaziland to reduce TB and HIV in the region’s mining sector.
Tests on new TB drugs have not yet been completed and some results have been worrying.
Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.
But overcrowded prisons such as Pollsmoor may not be able to address their healthcare deficits. Niren Tolsi reports.
The World Health Organisation has released its annual update on the state of TB around the globe – revealing SA has the highest burden of the disease.
The correctional services department owes about R1.3-billion in damages to prisoners and former inmates for bodily injury and rape while in prison.
The story of a ruined man’s lone legal battle reveals the dangerous conditions that prevail at the Western Cape prison.
Scientists have been energised by the results of a drug trial carried out in South Africa which was found to have killed 99% of patients’ TB bacteria.