Treatment for drug-resistant TB remains problematic as the painful daily injectable patients receive for at least six months leaves more than 60% deaf.
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Countries globally should adopt and adapt the World Health Organization’s new Essential Diagnostics List – as a key step in the management of all diseases.
Class action is a newish feature within South Africa’s legal landscape. Cases such as the silicosis matter are likely to influence many more.
The TB epidemic is out of control in Canada’s North. Eliminating the disease will require accurate data as well as government investment.
World TB Day will be observed March 24, with the good news that deaths from tuberculosis are declining. But a trend toward confining those with TB threatens to stall advances.
The current range of TB diagnostic tests have various limitations like the sputum smear which is outdated, clumsy and takes long to process.
We can’t eradicate TB without also addressing poverty.
On World TB Day 2018, eradicating TB finally looks like a goal that could be met — if political leaders can step up with cash and actions to match their political declarations.
A cure for many tropical diseases was discovered 30 years ago this month. The drug is donated by its manufacturer. Why are we still dealing with neglected tropical diseases?
Infectious diseases pose a continual threat to Canadians. Ensuring the population stays healthy requires increasing investment in our public health system.
India has a radical new plan to eliminate TB, backed by research and technological expertise. The country just needs strong financial and political commitment from government to implement it.
Tuberculosis has had a significant impact on the world, from influencing fashion trends to helping understand how the human body works.
The health care debate in the US has focused on a looming crisis, with millions possibly losing insurance coverage. In India, an immediate crisis looms with tuberculosis.
We’ve been told for a long time that we must take all of our antibiotics. But maybe we didn’t need so many to begin with. Here’s why.
Despite being so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye, pathogens that cause human disease have greatly affected the way humans live for centuries.
Here we explore our past and present struggles with the most significant infectious diseases human beings have faced.
Professor Samir Brahmachari’s innovative Open Source Drug Development allows thousands of researchers to work together to discover novel therapies for under-studied diseases.
Vaccinating against an infectious disease can stop once the threat of future transmission is deemed sufficiently low.
About three million people globally are ‘missed’ each year for Tuberculosis diagnosis. Many of them will die, some will get better, others will continue to infect others.
The proposed foreign aid cuts by US President Donald Trump will have a devastating impact on healthcare in Africa.
Top contributors
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
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Faculty Member, Africa Health Research Institute; Associate professor, UCL
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Health
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Extraordinary Senior Lecture in the Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Professor; Director Sydney ID, University of Sydney
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Faculty Member, Africa Health Research Institute; Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, UCL
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Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, SARChI Research Chair in Mycobactomics, Stellenbosch University
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Head of the Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town