TB
Success against deadly drug-resistant TB in rural KZN
Number of cases has dropped dramatically following bunch of health interventions
News | 16 July 2016
Survey finds massive medicine shortages in clinics
Mpumalanga and Gauteng have the most stockouts of HIV and TB medicines
By Rejul Bejoy and GroundUp Staff
Feature | 24 June 2016
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