TB

FEATURE

24 June 2016

Mpumalanga and Gauteng have the most stockouts of HIV and TB medicines

NEWS

4 April 2016

Calls for facility's service and space to be expanded, but officials say this will be difficult

OPINION

22 March 2016

We must increase access to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines

NEWS

10 March 2016

Activists call for test to be used in South African public health system

NEWS

3 February 2016

Pollsmoor detainees speak out

NEWS

15 December 2015

Mfuleni community clinic turned away some patients on Friday as staff went to an end-of-the-year function.

NEWS

3 December 2015

“Cough up money” for tuberculosis (TB) was the main demand of over a thousand people who marched from Keizersgracht Street to the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) this afternoon. The CTICC is hosting the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health, the planet's main annual TB meeting.

NEWS

30 November 2015

Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.5 million people last year according to the World Health Organisation. Yet research money for TB is stagnating or even declining, according to a new report by the US based Treatment Action Group (TAG).

BRIEF

2 November 2015

NEWS

26 October 2015

Mineworkers with silicosis and TB will have to wait a while to find out whether they can be represented as a class in legal action for damages against the gold mines which employed them.

NEWS

20 October 2015

Mines cannot be held liable for TB, advocates for the gold mines told the South Gauteng High Court yesterday.

NEWS

16 October 2015

Allowing the miners in the landmark silicosis case to act as a class on behalf of other miners would be contrary to the interests of justice, lawyers for the gold mining companies argued yesterday.

NEWS

5 October 2015

South Africa is running out of an essential medicine for treating very sick patients with tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant bacterial infections. Many hospitals are already out of stock.

FEATURE

8 April 2015

Homeless people in Observatory, Woodstock and Bellville have complained about a wave of law enforcement operations against them in the last two months.

NEWS

24 March 2015

All MPs should get themselves tested for TB, the Treatment Action Campaign says.

BRIEF

24 March 2015

Activists from the Treatment Action Campaign marched on Parliament this morning to call for better leadership in tuberculosis (TB) treatment and prevention in South Africa. Today is World TB day.