Why we must decentralise
While South Africa has improved case detection for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) with the introduction of the Xpert TB test, the capacity to treat patients diagnosed with Rifampicin-resistant TB has not…
Health department’s plan
South Africa has the third highest burden of TB in the world after China and India – approximately 1% of the South African population gets active tuberculosis every year. While…
Drug-resistant TB Facts
ABOUT TB TB is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent. In 2012, 8.6 million people fell ill with TB and 1.3…
Time to tackle DR-TB
“The greatest infectious killer in human history is making a comeback, morphing into new drug resistant forms. While it is largely forgotten in wealthy nations, millions of people a year…