Anti Tuberculosis

User-friendly TB drugs for children could be on their way

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.

Faranaaz Parker

3 min read

A baby receives the TB vaccine in the Western Cape. South Africa has one of the highest TB mortality rates in the world.

ANTI TUBERCULOSIS

19 SEP 2014

Social strain of chronic disease

An interdisciplinary study based at UCT has opened treatment of tuberculosis to cultural considerations.

Dr Helen Macdonald

7 min read

Médecins Sans Frontières reports on their success with decentralised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis care. With a new TB test and a community-based approach

ANTI TUBERCULOSIS

29 MAR 2011

A new approach to TB diagnosis in SA

Médecins Sans Frontières reports on their success with decentralised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis care. With a new TB test and a community-based approach, they are able to…

Staff Reporter

1 min read

ANTI TUBERCULOSIS

30 APR 2010

TB: New study uses old approach

Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.

Mara Kardas-Nelson

5 min read