Possible new TB drugs ‘ after 40 year wait
An antibiotic commonly used to treat chest infections may be the world's new weapon against tuberculosis, and the first new TB drug in 40 years.
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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.
Cheaper TB diagnostics for SA and other high burden countries
South Africa and 38 other countries with high-burdens of tuberculosis (TB) will benefit from a pricing agreement that will see the introduction of a test that is set to initiate a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to test for TB and multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB.
MDR TB patients need to be treated in communities, not locked in hospitals
Activist group opposes locking MDR and XDR patients in hospital wards as there are too many patients for health authorities to cope with.
TB and HIV treatment must be integrated
TB stakeholders sets four key tasks to contain southern Africa's TB-HIV epidemic.
‘Breast man’ should have been better monitored
The Mpumalanga man who grew breasts as a side-effect of being on antiretroviral drugs was not properly monitored by healthworkers, according to HIV experts.
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.
Abandoned in need
Overburdened home-based carers are being forced to step in as sick people are abandoned by their families
Rape in male prisons goes unreported Living with AIDS # 327
A new study looking at violence and sexual aggression in a Gauteng youth male correctional facility shows that many prison rapes go unreported. This makes HIV infection among rape survivors a real threat.
A further setback as more condoms recalled
The Health Department has recalled millions of male condoms it supplies annually after further testing revealed even more of the barriers were of inferior quality.
Doctor’s conscience in court Living with AIDS # 326
After what he calls 'many years of government stalling', this week the Labour Court finally heard the case of a former Mpumalanga doctor. Dr Malcolm Naude is challenging the Mpumalanga Department of Health for dismissing him, he alleges, on the grounds that he provided antiretroviral treatment to rape survivors.
Are govt condoms reliable?
The recent corruption scandal at the South African Bureau of Standards, which resulted in huge numbers of condoms reaching the public without undergoing the necessary testing procedures, has helped fuel the already existing negative perception about the reliability of government condoms.
SA ready to produce its own vaccines
After seven years of 'down time' South Africa is back in the business of vaccine production with the formulating and filling of the hepatitis B vaccine at the Biovac Institute, a public-private partnership.
Attracting men Living with AIDS Programme 325
Contrary to popular belief, it is not entirely difficult to get men to test for HIV. This is according to New Start, a non-profit public health programme offering low-cost Voluntary Counselling and Testing services.
Prevention news
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update focuses on the Caribbean's slow response to the AIDS epidemic, Australia's Hepatitis C epidemic which is fuelled by injecting drug use and London's efforts to get condoms to Olympic athletes come 2012.