Dr-TB

One in four people globally has latent TB

News

Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.

Amy Green
October 28, 2016

MSF offers access to new TB drug in SA

News

After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.

Amy Green
October 27, 2016

SA’s healthcare workers hard hit by TB infections

Health, Health Systems, News

Exposure to infectious patients, high HIV rates and a lack of ventilation in facilities are some of the reasons healthcare workers in South Africa have the one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the world.

Amy Green
October 24, 2016
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Guidelines: Management of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Health

Updated January 2013, these South African Department of Health guidelines describe the management of drug-resistant (DR), multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resisistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).

healthe
June 19, 2014

Minister does not join call for DR-TB emergency

Health, Health Systems

Despite activists’ pleas, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has not joined almost 800 health workers and experts in supporting the call to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency.

lauralopez
June 17, 2014

Government to introduce new drug-resistant TB drugs

Health, News

Government’s small-scale introduction of the first new TB drug in four decades is saving lines and paving the way for more, better and cheaper drugs to treat drug-resistant TB. Many wonder if they will come fast enough for those who need them.

lauralopez
June 12, 2014

DR-TB a ‘public health emergency’ – activists

Health

Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.

lauralopez
June 11, 2014

Multidrug-resistant TB cases double

Health

Diagnosed cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have nearly doubled globally but treatment in countries like South Africa’s is not keeping up, leaving patients to die and communities at risk, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report.

lauralopez
October 24, 2013

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