TB and HIV co-infection crisis a bigger threat
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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TB is a workplace issue
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.
Many TB deaths are HIV-related according to report
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.
IPT for people with HIV to prevent TB
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).
ARV Moratorium had devastating effects in Free State
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.
‘€œPeople would stare when we started wearing masks”
An unemployed mother of two, Busiswa Magqazola (28) first realised she was ill last April while pregnant with her second child.
Rio conference hopes to raise awareness of TB
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.
Treating drug-resistant TB at home
KHAYELITSHA - The tall woman walks from window to window, undoes the latches and flings them open. Next she negotiates her away through the throngs of people sitting on benches against the walls, some collapsed in the laps of their minders, others coughing behind thin, white, paper masks. Children squeal and run around, bored from waiting in the stuffy clinic. A stray dog is shooed away by a security guard.
Fighting prejudice and the disease
Seven years ago, Nothando Mkhize'€™s* life changed when she was diagnosed HIV positive and told that she also had tuberculosis.
Network Successful in Uniting Vaccine Researchers
The Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) network has made considerable progress towards the goal of developing an effective vaccine against HIV.
OPINION: Closing the tap on drug-resistant TB
The AIDS epidemic hit South Africa harder than most places and the same can be said for Drug-Resistant TB (DR-TB). The latest 2007 data is that more than 7300 people have multi drug resistant (MDR) TB and that over 500 extensively drug resistant TB cases have been diagnosed in South Africa.
Medical Scheme Offers Cash Back For Healthy Food
Discovery, the medical and life assurance provider, has launched a new healthy eating initiative, in partnership with Pick n Pay for members of its Vitality programme.
Free State AIDS patients in the dark about services Living with AIDS Programme 382
While the Free State Health Department maintains that last November'€™s moratorium preventing about 15 000 new patients from getting antiretroviral treatment has been lifted, patients and civil society organisations paint a different picture.
Free State making little progress
Less than 600 patients have started antiretroviral treatment since the Free State province lifted the moratorium on treatment and the waiting list of 15 000 grows daily.
FS health workers abandon patients to do ANC electioneering
Despite a health crisis in the Free State caused by a funding shortage, the provincial health department has granted 160 health workers who are members of the ANC-aligned National Education Health and Allied Workers'€™ Union (NEHAWU) paid leave for six months to do election campaigning for the ANC.