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A shorter TB preventive therapy regimen that’s not ready for primetime yet

New regimen prevents TB in 12 weekly doses

Spurring community engagement to ensure the proper implementation of the Three I’s for TB/HIV

A door-to-door TB awareness campaign in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Image courtesy of TB/HIV Care Association

TB in mothers increases risk of HIV passing to babies

New joint guidelines on IPT and intensified case-finding from WHO

New guidelines launched by the World Health Organization on 1st December 2010.

TB still killing 4000 people with HIV each day, WHO reports

Patients taking TB treatment may be potentially infectious for longer than previously thought

Requiring tuberculin skin tests before implementing IPT leads to avoidable and substantial number of TB cases

South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims