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OPINION: We need more dedicated investment to address TB in children

Posted in: Latest, TB, TB

Despite advances in paediatric TB care, substantial challenges remain. If we are to heed the call for this year’s World TB Day – ‘Yes! We can end TB’ – we will need to significantly ramp up dedicated investment for an integrated approach to addressing TB in children, argues Dr Sipho Nyathi.

OPINION: We need more dedicated investment to address TB in children

SA to receive donation of new child-friendly DR-TB medicines

Posted in: Healthcare system, Latest, TB

South Africa’s National Department of Health is set to receive a donation of child-friendly formulations of several medicines used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). It is expected that over the next year the donation will spare roughly 200 children the substantial difficulties associated with taking DR-TB medicines meant for adults.