DR-TB patients need family support
Home-based care, even for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, is working well at a pilot project in Khayelitsha started in late 2007.
25 March 2009
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Health crisis whacks TB efforts
HARARE: (PlusNews) - By the time Tichaona Paraziva, 49, tested HIV positive at the end of 2006 he was already in need of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, but there was a waiting list for the free government programme and on a teacher's salary he could not afford to buy medicines in the private sector.
Low awareness hinders TB diagnosis and treatment
KAMPALA: (PlusNews) - About half of Uganda's TB patients do not know that they could be infected, which has led to very low levels of diagnosis and treatment.
Saving more lives faster
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - In April 2009 the South African government will start rolling out a new test to diagnose multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), of which 16,000 cases were reported in 2007 alone. Doctors are hoping that the new rapid tests will get more patients on treatment and faster.
TB and HIV co-infection crisis a bigger threat
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).