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Call for new approach on drug-resistant TB

The French humanitarian agency, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has called for a new approach in dealing with patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.

Thousands call for action on TB

Activists have called for global action to stem the tide of deaths attributed to tuberculosis.

MDR TB patient survives despite health system’€™s failures

Clinic fails to test her for TB, Brooklyn refuses to admit her and doctor advises an abortion but Busi Beko and her daughter survive MDR TB.

‘TB out of control in Zimbabwe’

Tuberculosis (TB) and its drug resistant strain is out of control in Zimbabwe, advocacy organisations in the country have warned.

Discovery of new MDR TB drugs critical Living with AIDS # 329

The world is in desperate need of better medicines to deal both with the increase in multi-drug resistant TB and the problem of the co-infection of TB and HIV, say experts.

Smoking children – cause for concern, warn experts

Health experts say the high level of tobacco use among South African children of school going age is worrisome.

Not enough research to treat TB-HIV properly, say experts

Health systems cannot properly diagnose, treat, or contain the co-epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) because not enough is known about how the two diseases interact.

SA comes under fire for failing to stem XDR-TB

South Africa’€™s health department has come under fire from activists and HIV/tuberculosis experts for its failure to respond to extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB with claims that one of the critical drugs to stem this epidemic is not available in KwaZulu-Natal, the hotbed of the outbreak.

Settlement on Westville case delaying Living with AIDS # 328

Differences between government and AIDS activists are slowing down efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan for HIV and AIDS in prisons.

Better breast cancer services urgently needed

At the close of breast cancer awareness month, cancer organisations say proper testing and treatment services for breat cancer are completely inadequate.

Migrant workers fingered in the spread of HIV

The spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas has seen some people blaming migrant workers as being largely responsible for the spread of the pandemic.

How to curtail XDR-TB spread in hospitals

Measures to reduce the spread of XDR-TB in hospital settings, the continuous poaching of African nurses by the West and Russia’€™s raging HIV epidemic are some of the stories in the latest Centers for Disease Control Update.

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