TB cure rate Archives

Joburg girl battles TB stigma on the global stage

THE HAGUE: During the launch of a new book which tells the story about their tuberculosis (TB) journey, Janet, and her nine-year-old daughter Angelina, spoke to Health-e News from the Netherlands about the stigma they faced in a local pre-school.

Amy Green

October 30, 2018

World first for SA: All-access for blockbuster TB drug

South Africa made history on Monday when the health department announced that all drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients will be eligible to receive the new medicine, bedaquiline, becoming the first country to do so.

Amy Green

June 19, 2018

WORLD TB DAY: Breakthrough returns to 100-year-old vaccine

A breakthrough South African study may change the course of vaccine research for the world's number one infectious-disease killer: tuberculosis (TB). While a new vaccine has been heralded as the only hope, researchers have returned to an old vaccine discovered almost 100 years ago for answers.