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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).
The controversial moratorium imposed by the Free State Health Department on the provision of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to new AIDS patients, has hit patients and their families hard.
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An unemployed mother of two, Busiswa Magqazola (28) first realised she was ill last April while pregnant with her second child.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – As over a thousand researchers, scientists, health leaders, community organisations and tuberculosis experts descend on Rio de Janeiro for the 3rd Stop TB Partners Forum this week more people are dying of this curable and preventable disease than ever before.