Call for urgent action against world’s deadliest infectious disease
TB remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, according to a new report.
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Tb guidelines
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.
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Much shorter TB treatment offers hope
There is hope for people living with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as the “gruelling” two-year treatment with “terrible side-effects” such as deafness can now be successfully shortened to just nine months.
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Guidelines: National Tuberculosis Management Guidelines
The South African Department of Health has released its latest guidelines for the management of tuberculosis (TB) in adults.
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