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Not only does South Africa have one of the highest rates of tuberculosis in the world, the disease is also the country’s number one killer. (Envato Elements)
HIV

Can taking two pills a week slow down TB in South Africa?

Nhe new guidelines say anyone who has a big chance of getting infected can get access to preventive medicines

  • Nicole Ludolph
9 min read
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

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

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
TB: New study uses old approach
ANTI TUBERCULOSIS

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