Few illnesses lay bare the inequities of the modern global health system like tuberculosis. In 2021 alone, the disease killed 1.6 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious illness ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A new deadly form of tuberculosis spreading through South Africa has now been found in rich nations in Europe as well as Canada and the United States, the World Health ...

It has been estimated that 1.7 million people die from Tuberculosis (TB), and more than 10.4 million new cases are reported every year worldwide. The global 'End TB' strategy aims to eliminate the ...

Graeme Hoddinott is a fellow of the African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence (ARISE) programme. His ARISE research is focused on optimising care for adolescents with tuberculosis. The ...

Aug. 18, 2006 — -- In a rural, impoverished area of South Africa, a scary outbreak is occurring primarily among AIDS patients -- a type of tuberculosis that is extremely drug resistant. Of 53 ...

African scientists have developed a nanoscale drug delivery system to treat pericarditis, a drug-resistant and lethal ...

Developing medicines for diseases like TB that are killing African youths and stunting Africa's economic growth should be everyone's priority in Africa and the world. [iStockphoto] I was born in ...

TUGELA FERRY, South Africa — The nurses wear masks on the crowded tuberculosis ward at the Church of Scotland Hospital in this small town ringed by rocky hills. The windows stay open, even when it’s ...

While the recognition of innovations such as point-of-care diagnostics is heartening, the bigger picture must not be lost ...

WASHINGTON, DC (November 2, 2007)—The largely unnoticed collision of the global epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic that is rapidly spreading in ...