Russia's top coronavirus doctor who met Putin tests positive
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MPs urge citizens to follow basic hygiene to curb COVID-19, TB
Tuberculosis (TB) is on the agenda, but given ongoing developments around the novel virus, members of Parliament (MPs) may focus on the disease.
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Groote Schuur Hospital gets new facility to fight TB
The Western Cape has the highest tuberculosis prevalence rate in the world.
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TB drug price slashed in global push to thwart killer disease
The initiatives came as the United Nations seeks to galvanise the campaign against TB, which killed 1.5 million people worldwide last year and saw 10 million more infected.
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$14 billion goal in sight for fighting Aids, TB, malaria
The money was promised at a replenishment meeting in Lyon, France, of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, at which Macron engaged in intense diplomacy to exhort countries to step up donations.
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Vets stumped by how Kruger National Park elephant contracted human TB
In 2016, an elephant was found dead on the side of a road in Kruger National Park. It had died of tuberculosis. But what alarmed vets in the park was that the strain tested positive for human tuberculosis for the first time in South Africa. Since then, scientists at the park have been trying to figure out the implications of this case for the park's elephants.
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UCT study links common contraceptive to rise in TB risk
UCT's Professor Keertan Dheda and Dr Michele Tomasicchio have been researching the link between Depo-Provera and TB for three years.
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'It doesn't discriminate': MSF campaign turns TB survivors into activists
On Sunday was World TB Day, a day to create awareness around an illness that reportedly claims 4,500 lives every day.
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SA among 30 countries with highest multi-resistant TB cases
A graphic on the global burden of TB, including 558,000 multi-drug resistant cases in 2017.
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Deadly drug-resistant TB a 'blinking red' global threat
Tuberculosis has become resistant to antimicrobials in an estimated 600,000 cases worldwide.
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Fund battling Aids, TB and malaria seeks $14bn to invigorate fight
The Global Fund is a group of governments, civil society and private sector partners which invests around $4 billion a year to fight infectious diseases.
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WC sees slight drop in successful TB treatment cases
This is according to the Western Cape Health Department's annual report.
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New weapons drawn in global TB fight
Tuberculosis, a severe lung infection that is curable but historically hard to detect, kills more people each year than HIV and Aids, and more than three times more than malaria.
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The global burden of TB
Graphic on the global burden of tuberculosis, including 558,000 multi-drug resistant cases in 2017.
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'Game changer' tuberculosis drug cures 8 in 10
The results from a trial in Belarus show that of the 181 patients given the new drug, 168 people completed the course and 144 were totally cured.
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[ANALYSIS] To eliminate TB we need imagination and ambition
Professor Madhukar Pai says the fact that we are still using century-old tools to tackle the biggest killer infection betrays a complete lack of ambition.
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[OPINION] SA’s historic silicosis class action: why the settlement matters
Class action is a newish feature within South Africa's legal landscape. Cases such as the silicosis matter are likely to influence many more.
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Gold mine companies sign R5bn class action settlement in silicosis case
Lawyers representing miners say the agreement with the 32 gold mine companies provides meaningful compensation to all eligible workers.
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Research into new TB vaccine shows positive results
The vaccine sets out to prevent the progression of latent tuberculosis infection to the active form of the disease.
