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At a webinar hosted by the TB Accountability Consortium on Thursday, scientists explained how the fight against tuberculosis is proceeding. However, despite South Africa’s progress in reducing TB incidence and improving rates of detection and linking patients to treatment, the disease remains a...

The Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness and its partners will commemorate this year’s World Tuberculosis (TB) Day with the community members of Louwville on Friday.

A new TB diagnosis strategy called targeted universal testing (TUT) can help diagnose more people more quickly. Tiyese Jeranji reports.

There are early indications that targeted universal testing is already working well under real-world conditions. There are early indications that targeted universal testing is already working well under real-world conditions.

In South Africa, for its TB Recovery Plan to work, the focus should be on the strategic use of existing resources, argues Russell Rensburg.

Dr Limakatso Lebina (bottom row) presenting to CROI 2021. Screening everyone with HIV and others at high risk of tuberculosis for active TB increased diagnosis rates by 17% compared to testing people who had potential symptoms of TB such as cough and fever, Dr Limakatso Lebina of the University of Witwatersrand reported to the 2021 virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections this week. TB is under-diagnosed in people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, where it remains the bigge...