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HARGEISA:(PlusNews) – When three attempts to cure Abdulhakim*, 42, of tuberculosis failed, the father of nine living in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia, took his doctor’s advice and tested for HIV – the result came back positive.
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KwaZulu-Natal health department orders audit after allegations of financial mismanagement.
Patients in the Free State were recently denied AIDS treatment because of a lack of funds. But the National Treasury’€™s new allocation towards the province’€™s HIV and AIDS expenditure for the 2009 ‘€“ 2010 financial year, which begins in April, is R83 million short. Now the province’€™s head of health is already talking about restricting access to antiretrovirals.
National Treasury’€™s insufficient budget allocation to the Free State for the 2008-2009 financial year and the provincial Department of Health’€™s failure to raise emergency funds to cover the short-fall have had a direct impact on patient care.
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Home-based care, even for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, is working well at a pilot project in Khayelitsha started in late 2007.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Tuberculosis is a workplace issue, whichever way you look at it, Dr Mukund Uplekar of the World Health Organisation Stop TB Programme said yesterday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – One out of four TB deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously recognized, according to the Global Plan to Stop TB progress report released yesterday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – The Global Plan to Stop TB and delegates attending the 3rd Stop TB Partners Forum have upped the call for HIV-people attending HIV care services to receive isoniazid preventative therapy (IPT).