Tuberculosis
Coronavirus threatens to reverse progress in TB fight: WHO
The countries hit hard by tuberculosis such as India and South Africa have seen resources usually allocated to diagnosing and treating TB diverted to fighting...
Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that they had devised a strategy that would allow for the rolling out of services with the least amount of coronavirus infection risk.
Trials started at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, where BCG booster shots were administered to 250 health care workers, while another 250 received a dummy formula, or placebo.
Thursday is day two of a virtual Labour Court sitting in which Amcu wants the mining department and minister to be compelled to make binding regulations that are coupled with potential jail time for mine bosses who do not comply.
Researchers in Australia and Europe are testing whether the Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine, introduced in the 1920s to fight tuberculosis, might be deployed to combat COVID-19.
Speculation based on the behaviour of other viruses and chronic illnesses raises concerns that HIV and TB patients may have a higher risk of developing severe disease.
Tuberculosis (TB) is on the agenda, but given ongoing developments around the novel virus, members of Parliament (MPs) may focus on the disease.
The Western Cape has the highest tuberculosis prevalence rate in the world.
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.
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.
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.
UCT's Professor Keertan Dheda and Dr Michele Tomasicchio have been researching the link between Depo-Provera and TB for three years.
On Sunday was World TB Day, a day to create awareness around an illness that reportedly claims 4,500 lives every day.
A graphic on the global burden of TB, including 558,000 multi-drug resistant cases in 2017.
Tuberculosis has become resistant to antimicrobials in an estimated 600,000 cases worldwide.
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.
This is according to the Western Cape Health Department's annual report.
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.
Graphic on the global burden of tuberculosis, including 558,000 multi-drug resistant cases in 2017.