TB
Masiphumelele’s clinic unable to serve township’s needs
Calls for facility's service and space to be expanded, but officials say this will be difficult
News | 4 April 2016
TB kills 1.5 million a year - here’s how to stop it
We must increase access to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines
By Festus Mogae and Precious Matsoso
Opinion | 22 March 2016
UCT study finds TB urine test saves lives
Activists call for test to be used in South African public health system
News | 10 March 2016
HIV-positive prisoner denied antiretroviral treatment
Pollsmoor detainees speak out
News | 3 February 2016
Patients turned away from Mfuleni clinic
Mfuleni community clinic turned away some patients on Friday as staff went to an end-of-the-year function.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 15 December 2015
Cough up money for TB, demand protesters
“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.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 3 December 2015
Money for TB research is shrinking while millions die
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).
GroundUp staff
News | 30 November 2015
Essential TB medicine: is it back in stock?
On 5 October, GroundUp reported that the pharmaceutical company Sandoz had stopped supplying an essential medicine for treating tuberculosis (TB) to South Africa.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 2 November 2015
Tense wait for silicosis decision
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.
Pete Lewis
News | 26 October 2015