The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
The Highveld, Vaal Triangle and Waterberg–Bojanala areas linked to higher rates of respiratory disease and TB
It must be noted that the role of AI is not to tell the farmer that their ancestral knowledge is wrong but a tool to enhance that knowledge with information they couldn’t…
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in
Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US
About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes
Antagonism and tension are inherent in our being but we can change the conversation
About 83 out of every 100 people in our country depend on the public sector for their health care
Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent
By 2030, the planet is likely to be warmer, undermining the fight against tuberculosis
The judge said the need to widen access to first line ART and TPT therapy on a community level was a dire need
Claimants detail struggles to access compensation
Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover
Sex education will help prevent new HIV infections, expert says
Miss South Africa 2018 and Miss Universe runner-up Dr Tamaryn Green wants better working conditions for patients and doctors. As a TB and Covid-19 survivor herself, she talks to…
The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor…
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
Beneficiaries will now be able to apply to get money from the settlement almost two years after the Johannesburg high court ruled on the matter.
