TB

21-year court battle over TB in prisons ends in R1-million payout

Most of the payout is interest calculated from when state’s liability for TB contraction in prisons was established in 2012

Important advance in TB treatment

South African researchers publish trial results in world’s leading medical journal

US and Lesotho strike five-year health funding pact

Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the country’s health system

Global Fund to cut R1.4-billion to SA for HIV, TB and malaria

Global Fund is reducing funding to over 100 countries amidst shortfalls

Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die

Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

60% of the country’s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country’s TB programme is faltering

SA has world class medical researchers – they can and should be bailed out

Activists call on government to declare TB a national health crisis

Though TB is preventable and treatable, more than 50,000 people died of it in South Africa in 2022

Life-saving TB drug is now cheaper in South Africa, but not as cheap as it can be

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to drop the price of bedaquiline to the South African government by more than 40%