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Op-ed: Championing a TB free South Africa
Ingrid Schoeman, with TB Proof, campaigning against stigma for World TB Day. TB is the leading cause of death in South Africa. Globally, politicians and policymakers have not prioritised this disease....
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Wonder drug helps fight against drug-resistant TB
The country is leading the way in the fight against drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), changing the prognosis for DR-TB patients from bleak to beatable – not only for South Africans, but for people across the...
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World first for SA: All-access for blockbuster TB drug
“The Department of Health’s [DoH] commitment on bedaquiline is momentous globally and marks a new era of DR-TB management where we are really prioritising the patient,” Doctors Without Borders’ Dr Anja...
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Hope for strong world declaration on deadly TB
The WHO now recommends all DR-TB patients receive an all-oral regimen of medicines, including the new blockbuster drug bedaquiline. In June South Africa became the first country in the world to...
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Bedaquiline price protests hit World Lung Conference launch
“We have hope for a greater chance of curing MDR-TB [multi-drug resistant TB] patients who otherwise look at an abysmal cure-rate of 50 percent, but this can only happen if J&J cuts the price for...
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Two women vs ‘big pharma’ to fight TB
Despite the many health crises plaguing the country, South Africa is probably the best place to live if diagnosed with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). The reason? Nowhere else can one receive the...
View ArticleTwo women vs ‘big pharma’ to fight TB
One hails from Mumbai and the other from Khayelitsha but the pair has teamed up after surviving the planet’s deadliest infectious disease; tuberculosis (TB). Toxic treatment robbed both women of their...
View ArticleUS approves new TB drug tested in South Africa
The world is one step closer to ending the deadliest form of the deadliest infectious disease known to man: extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
View Article#WorldTBDay: One man’s long — but victorious — battle against TB
At 13, most boys dream of becoming football stars, musicians or famous actors but Thabo Pelesane discovered that he had pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in 1989 while he was still at Itirele Primary School...
View ArticleWith zero patients in the XDR TB ward, North West hospital reaches new milestone
After implementing a new form of treatment for drug resistant TB, Tshepong hospital has seen such high rates of success that patients numbers and community infections have dwindled.
View Article‘Losing her to TB was the most painful thing I ever went through as a...
A mother shares the story of how she adopted an HIV-positive teenager to give her a better life, and the pain of losing the child to tuberculosis (TB).
View ArticleSA research contributes to global change in treatment of drug-resistant TB
Research conducted in South Africa to find shorter, more effective treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) has contributed to a shift in global policy guidelines. The World Health...
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