‘Bazooka’ against TB launched
The health department has bought 30 multi-million rand machines that can diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis within two hours rather than the usual four weeks.
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24 March 2011
Stigma, poverty & false information contribute to TB defaulting
The city of Johannesburg's Health Department says it is struggling to bring down the rate of city dwellers defaulting on TB treatment. In 2009, the city had a 6.9 % defaulter rate. The target is to bring it down to less than 5%. Health-e News Service visited a clinic in Marlboro to see what the difficulties are.
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DOT supporters want to help
TB DOT supporters have a tough job ensuring that patients take their medication and offering them the necessary support. Health-e News Service asked two DOT supporters what truly drives them.
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‘We have a major problem’ ‘ head of TB programme
South Africa has a serious TB epidemic and many patients are not even diagnosed. The country also has the third highest TB burden in the world, says head of SA's TB programme.
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Poor response to TB & HIV Living with AIDS # 468
Despite widely acknowledging that in some parts of the country like Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, about 73% of people with HIV also have Tuberculosis, Health Department programmes have failed to screen HIV-positive people for TB and to protect them from getting the bacterial infection.
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