An antibiotic commonly used to treat chest infections may be the world'€™s new weapon against tuberculosis, and the first new TB drug in 40 years.

South Africa and 38 other countries with high-burdens of tuberculosis (TB) will benefit from a pricing agreement that will see the introduction of a test that is set to initiate a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to test for TB and multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB.

Activist group opposes locking MDR and XDR patients in hospital wards as there are too many patients for health authorities to cope with.

TB stakeholders sets four key tasks to contain southern Africa's TB-HIV epidemic.

The Mpumalanga man who grew breasts as a side-effect of being on antiretroviral drugs was not properly monitored by healthworkers, according to HIV experts.

There should be a judicial commission of inquiry into the role of President Thabo Mbeki and his officials'€™ in '€œexperiments on poor African people'€, according to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

A mother lives with the pain of knowing that her only daughter was used as a sex worker by another woman in their community.