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TB in South African prisons: WHERE TO NOW?
[caption id="attachment_1489" align="alignnone" width="567"] Awaiting trial detainees waiting to be tested for tuberculosis at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Photo courtesy of Gallo Images, The Times, and Shelley Christians[/caption] South Africa stands at a crossroads in the fight against tuberculosis. An important victory in the Constitutional Court has affirmed the…
Decentralising DR-TB care: how far along are we?
[caption id="attachment_1516" align="alignnone" width="567"] XDR-TB survivor and Médecins Sans Frontières peer counsellor Xoliswa Hermanus inspects the Khayelitsha family home of Jonas Cikizwa. Jonas is infected with XDR-TB, HIV and diabetes. Photo by Jose Cendon, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] In August 2011, the Department of Health announced a new policy…
Are long-acting injections the future of TB prevention?
Long-acting injections have been successfully used as contraception and more recently HIV prevention. Now researchers are exploring whether similar long-acting injections could be used for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. Tiyese Jeranji reports.
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