Major new TB plan for SA
The Department of Health has announced a major new plan to fight tuberculosis at an international conference in Cape Town. |
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More for Aids, TB: budget statement
The medium-term budget policy statement allocates more money to HIV/Aids grants as well as drug-resistant strains of TB. |
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Quarantine controversy
Critics say enforced quarantine is a violation of medical ethics and individual human rights. Health authorities say they have no choice.
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Quarantine urged for XDR-TB
People with a new deadly form of tuberculosis should be quarantined - even against their will - to prevent the disease's spread, scientists argue. |
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SA's plan to curb TB
South Africa is one of the four countries in the world with the largest concentration of TB sufferers with diagnosed drug-resistant strains of the disease. |
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Should SA quarantine TB patients?
Should health workers have the right to force patients with serious infectious or contagious diseases to submit to treatment?
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TB funds falling way short
The international community is spending less than half of the money called for by a global plan to stop tuberculosis, according to a report released in Cape Town on Wednesday. |
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TB/HIV a national emergency
The SA government must immediately declare TB and TB/HIV a national emergency and dramatically increase the intensity of its response, the World Health Organisation says. |
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Why quarantine may backfire
XDR-TB patients are being kept behind fences. Is this sensible, or a crucial error in the fight against the epidemic? |
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TB: a major challenge for SA
Medical experts say tough isolation measures are justified to contain a deadly, highly contagious and drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis brewing in South Africa. |
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Human rights and TB
HIV/Aids is a human rights issue, said former president Nelson Mandela. But why is tuberculosis, which is the leading cause of natural death in SA, not seen in the same light? |
