Drug Resistant Tubercolosis
latest news & developments
TB patients hold their breath for better treatment
For patients in developing countries, access to two new and improved TB drugs remain scarce.
Depressed TB patients ‘skip meds, imperil others’
A UCT study says counselling is needed to keep tuberculosis sufferers on treatment, without which they risk developing more dangerous forms of TB.
Crisis? What crisis? Africa Check tests Free State health claims
With last year’s provincial medical services data now available, Africa Check questions the Free State health’s assertions of "significant progress".
Comment: Do we take state help for granted?
SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.
Kampala is seizing TB by the horns
A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city’s slums.
Treatment of drug-resistant TB at clinics a success
A Medecins Sans Frontieres project in Cape Town finds that sick people prefer being treated at facilities closer to home rather than in hospitals.