Potential cure for deadliest form of TB
Usually a death sentence, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) can potentially be cured with a new drug combination.
Tuberculosis (TB)
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Shorter treatment for MDR-TB in sight
Shorter more effective treatment for drug sensitive and drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is on the horizon.
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.
Underfunding ‘nightmare’ hampers the global TB battle
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
One in four people globally has latent TB
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
SA’s healthcare workers hard hit by TB infections
Exposure to infectious patients, high HIV rates and a lack of ventilation in facilities are some of the reasons healthcare workers in South Africa have the one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the world.
Stem HIV deaths in very sick patients – study
HIV medication saves lives but not when it’s taken too late – especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Growing TB-diabetes epidemics gets world attention
On the eve of the first global summit on TB and diabetes, experts warn of huge fallout from TB-diabetes interaction
Picking up the Pieces
Health-e's latest documentary, "Picking up the Pieces" will be aired tonight (Tues) on 3rd Degree (e-TV) at 9.30pm. See the nurses in action dealing particularly with the huge rise in child rape cases, and find out how this specialisation is dying because it does not get proper recognition from the health authorities.
No need for swine flu panic ‘ SA scientists
South African scientists have dismissed predictions of a possible public health emergency following reports from Australia that a small number of swine flu patients were resistant to the first-line treatment, Tamiflu.
An end to the madness?
EDITORIAL: Finally there is a small light flickering at the end of the dark tunnel. The political will and urgency, so severely lacking for nine long years while Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were in charge, is on the face of it slowly starting to emerge.
Report confirms increase in teacher deaths
More teachers are dying than ever before and most of them are African and women. These and other findings are contained in a report released this week ' Educator Attrition and Mortality in South Africa.
Young, rural teachers most at risk
Thousands of teachers have been lost to HIV. An HSRC study has revealed the extent of the epidemic among educators and has called for 10 000 to be placed on anti-retroviral treatment with immediate effect.
Full Speech of Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the 2003 South African AIDS Conference
I am deeply honoured to be able to join you today at the opening of the South African AIDS Conference, on behalf of the South African Government and as Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council.
South African AIDS Conference
Health-e News Service will be webcasting the plenary sessions of the South African AIDS conference in Durban from August 3-6, 2003.