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Opinion: Release of SA’s first National TB Prevalence Survey should not be delayed any longer

By Marcus Low, September 14, 2020

Posted in: Edition 10: Drug-resistant TB, Edition 7: TB, Latest, TB, TB Response

Even though it has been ready for months, findings of a critically important tuberculosis survey have not been made public. Every day that passes, the more outdated the findings become, and accordingly the less useful.

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Opinion: Release of SA’s first National TB Prevalence Survey should not be delayed any longer

Drop in DR-TB detection points to “crisis” in SA’s TB response

By Kathryn Cleary, August 27, 2020

Posted in: Edition 10: Drug-resistant TB, Edition 14: Tuberculosis, Edition 7: TB, Latest, TB, TB Response

A leading TB doctor says that “it is no exaggeration to say there is a TB crisis in the country”, and that “the impact of this crisis could be even more devastating than COVID-19”. Kathryn Cleary explores the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on South Africa’s TB response and the way forward.

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