Home-based carers work with local clinics to monitor tuberculosis and HIV patients, making sure they take their medication as prescribed. Read more »
Bill and Melinda Gates have released their annual letter, and this time it is addressed to their "dear friend" Warren Buffett, who donated most of his fortune to the Gates ... Read more »
Some 155,000 children with TB are set to benefit across 18 countries that have already ordered the new medicines and are preparing to roll them out, starting with Kenya, according ... Read more »
The donation to the Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria makes Kenya one of the highest contributors from Africa. Read more »
Many children with TB do not complete their treatment because they have to take several bitter-tasting medicines every day for at least six months. Read more »
"The rising global burden of multidrug-resistant TB and other drug-resistant infections will come at a human and economic cost which the global community simply cannot afford to ... Read more »
According to Statistician General Pali Lehohla, South African mortality has dropped to its lowest rate in more than a decade. Read more »
When Phumeza Tisile was diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis she thought was going to die but an antibiotic - that is not only very expensive but difficult to ... Read more »
The world is fighting a difficult battle against the spread of tuberculosis as a greater number of cases have been confirmed than previously estimated coupled with a shortfall in ... Read more »
According to new research involving 2,800 children hospitalized in South Africa, Malawi and Kenya, the key to better TB diagnosis could lie in 51 genes found in the blood of ... Read more »
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