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…
KNOW TB: GET LITERATE
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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…
HOW YOU CAN USE AIDS COUNCILS TO STOP TB
[caption id="attachment_1494" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Chelsea Maclachlan, courtesy of the Treatment Action Campaign Archive[/caption] By getting involved, you can ensure that AIDS Councils improve the quality of tuberculosis services…
GeneXpert: An imperfect rollout
[caption id="attachment_1504" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Jose Cendon, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] The GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) test promises to revolutionise TB detection in South Africa. But will the rollout…
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.…
TB in the NSP: Are we meeting the targets?
[caption id="attachment_1537" align="alignnone" width="567"] People awaiting TB testing and treatment at Kuyasa Clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo by Jose Cendon, courtesy of Médecins Sans Frontières[/caption] “Reduce the number of…
TB and the NSP
[caption id="attachment_1555" align="alignnone" width="567"] Patients with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) wear masks while awaiting consultation at a clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly, courtesy of Médecins Sans…