AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis

[spotlight] Being a researcher who studies tuberculosis in the lab is one thing, having the TB bug in your lungs is quite another. Spotlight sat down with two of a relatively small number of people who have experienced both.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Inside a small laboratory at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, a technician splits a sputum sample in two. Half goes into a GeneXpert machine, the workhorse of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in Zambia. The other half goes into a near-point-of-care molecular device, small enough to sit beside a phone, powered by battery or exte...

[GroundUp] Most of the payout is interest calculated from when state's liability for TB contraction in prisons was established in 2012

[GroundUp] South African researchers publish trial results in world's leading medical journal

[Daily Maverick] As TB claims 54,000 South African lives annually, the reconstituted parliamentary TB Caucus must weaponise data transparency and political leadership to combat funding cuts and systemic health failures.