The Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020 is a costed plan to implement the first five years of the world’s “End TB Strategy,” which is a 20-year-plan to eradicate death, disease and suffering due to tuberculosis (TB) by 2035.
Produced by the AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), this activists’ guide provides a framework for activists to address five key issues within the intersection of tuberculosis (TB) and human rights.
The Free State Health Department has lost almost a quarter of its doctors in the last year. At Welkom’s Bongani Regional Hospital, the strain is beginning to show with deadly consequences for Free State women.
When Ndlela Howard Dhlamini disclosed his HIV-positive status more than a decade ago, ignorance about HIV led his local tavern to refuse to reuse the glass he drank from. This kind of HIV stigma may be a memory for Dhlamini but not for everyone living with the virus.
Activists stormed representatives of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi at the World Lung Health Conference. Organisations including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have accused the company of profiteering and charging South Africans up to almost ten times the global price for a much needed medicine to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).
From your pet cat to the lions of the Kruger Park, animal carriers of tuberculosis (TB) are becoming an increasing concern as research continues to reveal TB in the most surprising of places.
More than 300 former tuberculosis (TB) patients, activists and health experts have demanded that countries like China, Brazil and India increase TB research funding as the bacteria continues to hundreds of thousands of their citizens in the ground each year.
More than 100 people living with disabilities recently protested the lack of wheelchair access at Shoprite’s Thohoyandou branch, bringing shopping to a standstill for hours. The group is expected to resume protests today.
More than 30,000 children develop tuberculosis (TB) each year in South Africa. For these children, cure comes in the form of six months of daily, bitter pills made for adults more than twice their size but new, better treatment may be on the way, according to research non-profit the TB Alliance.
South Africa may see an estimated 469,000 new HIV infections annually, and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 remain hardest hit by new infections, according to the country’s latest HIV survey. Now a young Khayelitsha artist is using the stage to take HIV prevention to the streets.
COMMENT: Amid a growing list of government blunders, the one good story to tell is the progress that the Zuma administration has made against AIDS - but the war has not yet been won.
It will take 180 years to eradicate TB at the current rate of improvement – a mere 1,5 percent a year – which is why a totally new approach is needed, according to Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Four South African research institutions are among the top 100 funders of tuberculosis (TB) research in the world according to a new report released today. If the country could triple TB research funding in the next three years, it could even outstrip richer countries.
No one knows how many South Africans are living with hepatitis C but the virus affects everyone from injecting drug users to suburban housewives. For decades, Hep C treatment was priced out of reach. Now, South Africa is importing new, better and cheaper drugs but a cure still comes at a cost.
A staggering 80 percent of people living with disabilities globally live in poverty, according to the National Department of Social Development.
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