TB

US and Lesotho strike five-year health funding pact

Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the country’s health system

Global Fund to cut R1.4-billion to SA for HIV, TB and malaria

Global Fund is reducing funding to over 100 countries amidst shortfalls

Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die

Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

60% of the country’s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country’s TB programme is faltering

SA has world class medical researchers – they can and should be bailed out

Activists call on government to declare TB a national health crisis

Though TB is preventable and treatable, more than 50,000 people died of it in South Africa in 2022

Life-saving TB drug is now cheaper in South Africa, but not as cheap as it can be

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to drop the price of bedaquiline to the South African government by more than 40%

Court ruling means that pharmacists can prescribe to people with HIV

Specially trained pharmacists will be allowed to manage and prescribe medicine to patients with HIV and/or tuberculosis

This vaccine could save tens of thousands of South African lives each year, but we’ll only see it in 2030

Vaccines against TB are much slower to develop than Covid ones