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ART and TB prevention

This edition explores what is known about the potential benefits and limits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for TB prevention and control.

Published
25 November 2011
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB transmission
Simple face masks could significantly prevent spread of TB to non-infected patients

(American Thoracic Society) Face masks worn by patients infected with tuberculosis (TB) may be able to significantly cut transmission rates to non-infected patients, according to a new study by researchers from the US and South Africa.

Published
17 May 2011
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
TB transmission
Zambia employs innovative techniques to stop spread of TB

The Center’s Christine Lubinski and Rabita Aziz describe visits to ZAMSTAR’s TB programs in Livingstone and Lusaka, Zambia, during a recent Congressional delegate trip to Africa.

Published
09 September 2010
From
Science Speaks
TB transmission
Prison overcrowding leading to TB spread in South Africa

Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.

Published
02 September 2010
From
AllAfrica
TB treatment
Patients taking TB treatment may be potentially infectious for longer than previously thought

Patients taking directly observed therapy (DOTS) for tuberculosis (TB) may be potentially infectious for longer than previously thought, investigators report in the August 15th edition of Clinical

Published
10 August 2010
By
Michael Carter
Prisoners
The HIV and TB Prison Crisis in Southern Africa

In 1988, while Nelson Mandela was in prison, he contracted tuberculosis (TB). TB is common in prisons, with overcrowded cells and poor ventilation facilitating transmission. Mandela is now long free, but TB remains a threat to all prisoners - and to all South Africans.

Published
23 July 2010
From
Human Rights Watch HIV/TB
Tuberculosis and HIV
South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims

The gold-mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the tuberculosis crisis it faces at the

Published
10 June 2010
By
Lesley Odendal
TB prevention
TB transmission in healthcare settings and improving infection control

TB infection control in health care facilities is vital for the control of TB among people with HIV.

Published
19 December 2006
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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