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TB fight set back more than a decade because of Covid
The Covid pandemic has set back the fight against TB by about 12 years and led to huge reversals in the decline of cases,...
TB drug costs to drop after J&J loses patent extension bid
People with drug-resistant TB could soon have access to critical medication at a far lower cost after Johnson & Johnson’s application to extend a...
Treatment gaps and poor governance hold back progress in reducing TB
Tuberculosis was declared a global public emergency of international concern 30 years ago, so why are 1.6m people still dying from the disease worldwide...
Community care model improves uptake of TB therapy – KZN study
Tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy uptake and continuation were much higher when it was provided through a community-based model compared to the standard clinic-based model,...
New TB detection technology speeds up case finding
A new mobile TB detecting clinic using the latest technology has accelerated case finding by two weeks and stands to hugely curb the spread...
MSF trial finds better, shorter, more effective treatment for MDR-TB
The standard-of-care treatments for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) are nine to 20 months and have side effects that often cause patients to stop taking their...