Despite activists’ pleas, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has not joined almost 800 health workers and experts in supporting the call to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency.
South Africa may finally allow access to a cheaper form of the drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) drug linezolid following the lodging of a high court case.
Thousands of prisoners across South Africa may have tuberculosis (TB) and have no idea, if recent studies are any indication. Now, the Department of Justice and Correctional Services (DJCS) promises an action plan to control the TB epidemic raging behind bars.
South Africa is seeing about 79,000 fewer TB cases annually thanks to increased HIV treatment uptake, according to the latest research from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NCID)
Government’s small-scale introduction of the first new TB drug in four decades is saving lines and paving the way for more, better and cheaper drugs to treat drug-resistant TB. Many wonder if they will come fast enough for those who need them.
The National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB sets a number of goals that are measured against a set of indicators. The NSP Review, a joint publication between the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27, has attempted to gather the data that is currently available.
Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.
The Department of Health is expected to launch new tuberculosis (TB) guidelines at the South African TB Conference, which begins today in Durban.
As the Health Professionals Council of South Africa’s (HPSCA) postpones the sentencing Dr Wouter Basson for his role in apartheid’s biological warfare again this week, experts are calling for clear guidelines to deal with doctors involved in unethical behaviour.
There is a big difference between hospitals in the private sector in much the same way that there are wide disparities in care across public health facilities and provinces, according to Discovery Health CEO Dr Jonathan Broomberg.
Crooked doctors and hospital admission clerks are at the centre of syndicates illegally benefiting from hospital cash plans, according to Discovery Health CEO Dr Jonathan Broomberg
Tembisa Hospital is at the centre of an investigation again after one man's family alleges that staff left him to die. Now, his daughter is on a quest to find the truth.
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