As South Africa officially enters its fifth wave of Covid-19, dominated by the highly infectious omicron subvariants, the primary threat to health from shared ind Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing structural fault lines in societies - especially in health systems. These same inequalities drive another major gl Read more »
On March 24, as the world commemorates World Tuberculosis Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is caling for an urgent investment of resources, support, care and informat Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic hit South Africa's tuberculosis (TB) response early and hard, writes Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight. Between February and May 2020, Read more »
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its commitment to support the country in eradicating Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killer diseases in the ... Read more »
TB-PRACTECAL, a global clinical trial led by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating ... Read more »
The Stop TB Partnership has said that it notes with concern the data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, which feat Read more »
Tanzania's health minister Dorothy Gwajima has launched mobile health facilities that are aimed at multiplying efforts in the fight against TB. Gwajima received five mobile clinics ... Read more »
Turkana County is on high alert over fears of a surge in tuberculosis (TB) infections, which officials say could hit 2,500 cases in a year. The county has stepped up the war ... Read more »
In a finding that may help further reduce side effects, new research has found that the dosage of the drug linezolid can be lowered without compromising how well it works. Together ... Read more »
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