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The National Health Insurance pilot programme
[caption id="attachment_1632" align="alignnone" width="567"] Kotyana Clinic has had solar panels for about three years, but they were never connected. The clinic has no electricity or running water. Photo by Thys…
Why are there no medicines at the clinic?
[caption id="attachment_1744" align="alignnone" width="567"] Women wait for hours to be seen by a primary health care nurse on an Eastern Cape health outpost in the OR Tambo district. Photo by…
How many people in South Africa are on ART?
[caption id="attachment_1661" align="alignnone" width="567"] The morning drug burden for a patient in an inpatient MDR-TB treatment facility in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Photo by Amelia Rutter, courtesy of Photoshare[/caption] South Africa’s…
Flying Blind
[caption id="attachment_1671" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Samantha Reinders, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] A senior manager from South Africa’s Department of Health once said that managing a healthcare system…
Slow progress at SANAC
[caption id="attachment_1682" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Samantha Reinders, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] The National Strategic Plan lists the HIV and TB-related targets that South Africa aims to achieve…
The NSP: Do we know what's happening?
[caption id="attachment_1698" align="alignnone" width="567"] Adherence clubs for HIV-positive patients have been successful in strengthening their treatment, adherence and outcomes. Photo by Samantha Reinders, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières.[/caption] “What…
How to fix airflow in prisons
TB is an airborne disease with an increased potential for transmission in poorly ventilated and overcrowded spaces. An infectious individual is far more likely to transmit TB in such environments.…
TB round table
Stakeholders met to discuss strategies to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB) – the leading cause of death in South Africa’s correctional centres – at the University of the Witwatersrand on…
TB vaccines
[caption id="attachment_1422" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Shyam Goswami[/caption] The search for an effective TB vaccine has so far failed to produce a silver bullet against the disease and recent trial…
The Pipeline for New TB Regimens: Better than Ever Is Not Good Enough
[caption id="attachment_1585" align="alignnone" width="567"] A patient at Lizo Nobanda TB Care Centre in Khayelitsha takes her TB medication. Photo by Jose Cendon, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] In December 2012,…
Rifapentine: Trialled in SA but not available in SA
A new tuberculosis treatment regimen has been shown to be safe and effective in a clinical trial conducted in southern Africa. However, the high cost and a lack of clear…