Can taking two pills a week slow down TB in South Africa?
Nhe new guidelines say anyone who has a big chance of getting infected can get access to preventive medicines
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User-friendly TB drugs for children could be on their way
The regimen for children is bitter adult drugs, which are taken over an extended period – and it’s worse in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Social strain of chronic disease
An interdisciplinary study based at UCT has opened treatment of tuberculosis to cultural considerations.
A new approach to TB diagnosis in SA
Médecins Sans Frontières reports on their success with decentralised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis care. With a new TB test and a community-based approach, they are able to get more patients on to treatment, sooner.
TB: New study uses old approach
Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.
