Vama Jele's heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis ...

COVID-19 surpassed TB as a killer over the past two years. [iStockphoto] Effective tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been available for the past 60 years. But TB remains the leading cause of death from ...

Few illnesses lay bare the inequities of the modern global health system like tuberculosis. In 2021 alone, the disease killed 1.6 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious illness ...

The South African National Aids Council has called for secure medical supply chains and local manufacturing capacity to ...

South Africa will ramp up home delivery of medicines to patients and expand the use of chest X-rays for tuberculosis (TB) screening in communities as it looks to contain new infections since the COVID ...

It has been estimated that 1.7 million people die from Tuberculosis (TB), and more than 10.4 million new cases are reported every year worldwide. The global 'End TB' strategy aims to eliminate the ...

Dr Aaron Motsoaledi highlighted a high case fatality rate and the economic burden on affected households during a ...

Aug. 18, 2006 — -- In a rural, impoverished area of South Africa, a scary outbreak is occurring primarily among AIDS patients -- a type of tuberculosis that is extremely drug resistant. Of 53 ...

Addressing Members of Parliament, Speaker Didiza described the declaration as a “call to action for parliamentarians ...

Graeme Hoddinott is a fellow of the African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence (ARISE) programme. His ARISE research is focused on optimising care for adolescents with tuberculosis. The ...