TB treatment

Sound the alarm: We are failing to meet targets to beat TB but Khayelitsha’s care model during COVID-19 shows exactly how it should be done

During the course of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health last week, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced the results of TB-PRACTECAL, the first-ever multi-country, randomised, controlled clinical trial to report on the effectiveness and safety of a six-month…

Read More » Sound the alarm: We are failing to meet targets to beat TB but Khayelitsha’s care model during COVID-19 shows exactly how it should be done

#WorldTBDay: ‘I never thought that a person like me at such a young age could be diagnosed with TB’

Childhood and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) is common and often more difficult to diagnose and treat. Health-e News spoke to two TB survivors who had the disease while they were just 14 and 18 and about the special challenges having TB as a teen.
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