Researchers still challenged by the scourge of TB.
Eighteen ex-goldminers are taking on Anglo over a lung disease caused by exposure to silica dust. It’s a case that could cost the industry billions.
In a bumpy backstreet in Mthatha stands the offices of the ex-mineworkers’ union, founded in 1987. There are seven stacks of dusty files in one corner, each the height of an adult, containing compensation applications and other paperwork for each of the union’s members in the Eastern Cape. “About 18 000 members,” says Zanele Mbuyisa, a […]
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/ 21 December 2010
Tuberculosis killed 4 700 people every day last year. The annual death toll of 1,7-million includes 380 000 people.
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/ 10 December 2010
Inadequate training is a barrier to successfully preventing TB infection in HIV patients.
Strategies include harder bargaining over prices paid for ARVs and earlier onset of treatment.
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/ 13 October 2010
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday unveiled a new five-year plan to help fight tuberculosis (TB).
Compounds being developed against tuberculosis also show promise against deadly tropical diseases threatening millions of people.
Mining operations in Africa could be driving the whole continent’s tuberculosis epidemic, a new Oxford-led study has found.
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/ 12 October 2009
South Africa is among the 10 worst performing countries on TB control, Deputy Health Minister Molefi Sefularo said in Cape Town on Monday.
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/ 18 September 2009
Tuberculosis sufferers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, are selling their saliva to healthy individuals looking to gain medical grants.
Scientists attending the Fifth International Aids Conference warned of a potentially devastating drug-resistant TB epidemic.
Thandile Qwalela died in the tuberculosis ward of his Eastern Cape district hospital at the age of 48.
Only 4% of South Africans living with HIV in South Africa are receiving preventative therapy for tuberculosis and only 1% are being screened for TB.
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/ 29 October 2008
The commitment from the new minister of health will go a long way in the fight against the disease.
Photojournalist James Nachtwey’s dream of using images to fight tuberculosis is coming true with the help of technology titans.
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/ 25 September 2008
One of the key anti-TB drugs, rifampicin, increases the speed at which one class of ARVs is broken down by the body.
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/ 17 September 2008
An SA study has shown that mortality among TB and HIV co-infected patients can be reduced by 55%, if ART is provided with TB treatment.
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/ 4 September 2008
Tuberculosis patients at two Eastern Cape hospitals started eating again on Thursday after going on a hunger strike.
”HIV/Aids is about sex; TB is about sputum,” said Dr Francois Venter, the head of the HIV Clinicians’ Society, at a debate on tuberculosis this week.
The prevalence in HIV is showing signs of decreasing, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
A probe has been launched into the stability of two drugs received from a supplier for the management of tuberculosis.
Three men have been arrested in possession of dagga at the Jose Pearson tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Port Elizabeth.
The Eastern Cape health department has dismissed claims that an XDR-TB patient in a PE hospital died because there was not enough oxygen to treat her.
Ancient bones from the city of Jericho are to be used by British scientists to develop treatments for tuberculosis.
The government is considering increasing the value of social grants in order to soften the blow of high food prices.
A drive to tackle the tide of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation last week.
South Africa has the world’s fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.
Twelve out of 19 tuberculosis (TB) patients who escaped from the Jose Pearson Hospital in Port Elizabeth have been found.
Nineteen tuberculosis patients have escaped from the Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Sunday.
Becky Mugisha* had been ill with a hacking cough for three months before she was admitted into one of Kampala’s tuberculosis (TB) wards.
A programme to trace people who default on their tuberculosis (TB) treatment was officially launched in the Northern Cape on Friday by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. All provinces have established TB tracer teams of nurses and community health workers who visit homes to find defaulters and return them to their treatment regime.