Analysis: We need to do for TB vaccines what we’ve done for COVID-19

By Chris Bateman, May 18, 2021

Posted in: COVID-19, Latest, TB

It is little wonder that some TB vaccine researchers suffer from a rare syndrome that understandably threatens their mental health. Symptoms include frustration, impatience, irritability, seemingly inexplicable rage, and in the least resilient, despair. It’s called VJS or vaccine jealousy syndrome, writes Chris Bateman.

Opinion: Engage communities and leverage COVID-19 innovations to address SA’s TB crisis

By Ruvandhi Nathavitharana, Wieda Human, Arne von Delft and Ingrid Schoeman, March 23, 2021

Posted in: COVID-19, Latest, TB

It is time to engage communities through community healthcare workers and to leverage COVID-19 innovations to advance the urgent need for high-quality, person-centred tuberculosis (TB) care for all, argue authors from leading TB advocacy organisation TB Proof.

Funding by Faith

By Spotlight, December 7, 2017

Posted in: Kwazulu-Natal, Latest, Spotlight Edition 4

A community caregivers project for rural KwaZulu-Natal AIDS orphans and vulnerable children hangs in the balance as donor money from the United States dries up.