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South Africa: TB Treatment to Be Shortened to 4 Months for Most Children
spotlight, 16 September 2022
South Africa last published comprehensive guidelines for the management of childhood tuberculosis (TB) in 2013. Almost a decade later, there is a pressing need to update the… Read more »
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South Africa: As Testing Volumes Improve, Government Outlines TB Recovery Plan
spotlight, 15 September 2022
South Africa's tuberculosis (TB) testing numbers have recovered from dramatic COVID-19-related declines in 2020, delegates heard this week at the opening of the 7th South African… Read more »
South Africa's Healthcare Providers Outline TB Recovery Plan
The 7th South African TB Conference is under way in Durban, where the health care community is looking at the progress and challenges facing a country that has some of the highest rates of tuberculosis in the world.
While the number of tests being conducted have increased since the decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Harry Moultrie, senior medical epidemiologist for geospatial modelling at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, says that "going forward, we will need locally targeted interventions to guide the country's TB programme".
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The Stop TB Partnership has launched a detailed strategy to finally put an end to the world's oldest pandemic. It also lays out how, from now up to 2030, a globa Read more »
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Curdlan is a popular carbohydrate in the food industry. Its name is derived from the word "curdle", and as it suggests, it's widely used as a thickener and stabiliser in everything ... Read more »
This is a medical illustration of drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria (from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication entitled Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019).
