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Tracing the close contacts of people ill with tuberculosis and offering them TB preventive therapy is part of South Africa’s strategy to fight the disease.

Unfortunately, as with long Covid, being cured of TB is not always the last hurdle and many people go on to struggle with post-TB lung disease.

As with long Covid, many people struggle with post-TB lung disease. We asked local experts about this sometimes-neglected area of TB care.

The period covered by South Africa’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV, TB, and STIs 2017-2022 will soon come to an end. Against the backdrop of another World TB Day, Spotlight asked several tuberculosis experts what they think the priorities should be as South Africa develops an NSP for...

Against the backdrop of another World TB Day, Tiyese Jeranji asked several local tuberculosis experts what they think the TB priorities should be as South Africa develops an NSP for the next five years

A mobile X-ray clinic. Picture: WC Health One of the most striking findings of South Africa’s first national Tuberculosis (TB) Prevalence Survey was that of 234 people found to have TB, around 58% had abnormal chest X-rays without experiencing any TB symptoms. The survey findings also confirmed what many experts suspected – that tens of thousands of people with TB in South Africa are simply never diagnosed. Based on the survey it was estimated that 390 000 people fell il...

SA piloting mobile X-rays to boost asymptomatic TB detection Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved One of the most striking findings of South Africa’s first National Tuberculosis (TB) Prevalence Survey was that of 234 people found to have TB, around 58% had abnormal chest X-rays without experiencing any TB symptoms. The survey findings also confirmed what many experts suspected – that tens of thousands of people with TB in South ...

One of the most striking findings of South Africa’s first National Tuberculosis (TB) Prevalence Survey was that of 234 people found to have TB, around 58% had abnormal chest X-rays without experiencing any TB symptoms. The survey findings also confirmed what many experts suspected – that tens of thousands of people with TB in South Africa are simply never diagnosed. Based on the survey it was estimated that 390,000 people fell ill with TB in the country in 2018 – of which around 154,000 n...