Tagged:

World Tuberculosis Day - South Africa Leads Charge in Research

The International Society for Vaccines has selected a publication by the University of Cape Town as the best paper of the year for 2019. The paper, titled "Final Analysis of a Trial of M72/AS01E Vaccine to Prevent Tuberculosis" showed the groundbreaking treatment was able to protect 50% more participants who received the vaccine against developing tuberculosis at the end of three years than those who received a placebo. This came as Desmond Tutu TB Centre Director Professor Anneke Hesseling shared some of the ground-breaking work in paediatric tuberculosis in an interview with Spotlight.

Africa: Tuberculosis - Nigeria First in Africa, Sixth Globally

Daily Trust, 25 March 2020

Commemorating this year’s World Tuberculosis Day, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Pharmacist Ahmed Baba has said Nigeria is 1st in Africa and 6th at the global level… Read more »
South Africa: Best Paper Award for UCT TB Vaccine Research

UCT, 24 March 2020

The International Society for Vaccines (ISV) has selected a publication in which the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Mark Hatherill, Professor Robert Wilkinson, Professor… Read more »

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Promotional image from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (file photo).

South Africa: TB in Children - the Amazing Research Being Done in Cape Town

spotlight, 24 March 2020

24 March is World TB Day. According to the World Health Organisation this year's theme is "It's time". Time to accelerate diagnosis, treatment, prevention and overall, time to end… Read more »
South Africa: TB - Scientists Know a Great Deal, but There's Still More to Learn

The Conversation Africa, 24 March 2020

South Africa has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection globally. Almost 400 000 patients are treated for TB annually. It is also the most common cause of death in… Read more »
Africa: New, Shorter Treatment to Prevent TB to be Rolled out in Five High-Burden TB Countries

Aurum Institute, 24 March 2020

Three-month regimen expected to prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease, including people living with HIV and children under the age of five Read more »
Nigeria: Tuberculosis Kills 18 People in Nigeria Every Hour

This Day, 15 March 2019

The United States Centre for Disease Control (US-CDC) has declared that no fewer than 18 people die in Nigeria every hour as a result of Tuberculosis, thereby ranking Nigeria the… Read more »