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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

TB treatment to be shortened to 4 months for most kids

Posted in: Edition 14: Tuberculosis, Edition 7: TB, Healthcare system, Latest, TB, TB

South Africa last published comprehensive guidelines for the management of childhood tuberculosis (TB) in 2013. Almost a decade later, the guidelines are being updated to recommend a shortened TB treatment regimen for most children with pulmonary TB. Catherine Tomlinson reports.