Tag: Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis experts say the COVID-19 pandemic derailed decades of work around TB testing and treatment.

More than 1500 delegates, including global health experts, policymakers and community leaders are expected to attend the 7th South African ...

The Eastern Cape provincial government is concerned about the high prevalence of Tuberculosis (TB) infections in the province.

Covid-19 has ravaged the Eastern Cape, claiming more than 11-thousand lives in the province. At the same time, tuberculosis remained ...

Deputy President David Mabuza says the clock is ticking and South Africa needs to fight, treat and end Tuberculosis now. ...

Mkhize was speaking at the virtual launch of the TB Prevalence Survey by the Human Sciences Research Council and other ...

Thousands of NGOs face the risk of closure if the lack of government funding persists, since billions of rands are ...

Fears of an imminent COVID-19 catastrophe drove government to put the country under national lockdown for three weeks to curb ...

People living with HIV can now use treatment for a shorter period to prevent from getting Tuberculosis (TB).

One of the major factors that big pharmaceutical companies consider when new drugs are introduced, is whether health facilities have ...

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has infected over 3,000 people and killed more than 2,000 since August last year. It is the ...

Researchers say they are close to coming up with a new vaccine to prevent tuberculosis. The scientists made the announcement ...

International donors pledged $14 billion to fight diseases including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at a Global Fund summit in the ...

The Mpumalanga Department of Health says it is moving towards the right direction in the fight against the TB pandemic.

Tuberculosis (TB) survivors say stigmatisation undermines efforts to fight the spread of the disease.

Government needs to double its efforts if it's to deal decisively with tuberculosis.

The Global Fund is a group of governments, civil society and private sector partners which invests around $4 billion a ...

It kills millions of people and is carried by a quarter of humans, yet there has been just a handful ...

Millions of people with high blood sugar may be at greater risk of tuberculosis than previously thought, scientists said Friday, ...

Scientists on Thursday unveiled a revolutionary way of screening children for tuberculosis, which they say will prevent hundreds of thousands ...