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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: June 13, 2023, 1:31 p.m.·
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Diagnostics
An article published in Spotlight elaborates on a series of related trials called XACT, exploring community-based TB testing using battery-operated molecular tests.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: June 2, 2023, 9:49 a.m.·
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TB care
People in South Africa who fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) often also have other health issues. HIV, which drives much of the TB epidemic in South Africa, is the most obvious co-infection, but people who fall ill with TB are also more likely to have diabetes and mental health problems than the general public.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 2:56 p.m.·
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TB care
According to the World Health Organization, of the roughly 10 million people who fall ill with TB annually, over 80% survive, in most cases due to a six-month treatment course. Unfortunately, as with long COVID, being cured is not always the last hurdle and many people go on to struggle with post-TB lung disease.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 7:52 p.m.·
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Pediatrics,
Diagnostics
Most TB testing today relies on sputum samples coughed up from the lungs. This makes intuitive sense since pulmonary (or lung) TB is the most common form of TB and sputum provides testable samples straight from the scene of infection.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 5 p.m.·
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Diagnostics,
Treatment
Busisiwe Beko, from Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) while she was pregnant. She remembers it as a very difficult period in her life.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 2:58 p.m.·
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Diagnostics
TB diagnosis usually starts with asking someone whether they have any of the classic symptoms of TB (coughing, fever, loss of weight, and drenching night sweats in adults). Traditionally, only people who have one or more of these symptoms are offered confirmatory molecular tests.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 10:51 p.m.·
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TB care
Falling ill with TB and all the disruption and stress that goes along with it can take a toll on someone’s mental health, and mental health problems can in turn make someone more vulnerable to TB.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 5:11 p.m.·
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Treatment,
TB care
Tuberculosis (TB) can be cured, but completing TB treatment can sometimes be difficult. Treatment for drug-susceptible forms of TB takes six months and some of the medicines have side effects. Treatment of drug-resistant TB typically takes more than six months and the risk of side effects is substantially higher.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Oct. 3, 2022, 5:05 p.m.·
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Diagnostics,
HIV coinfection
While tuberculosis (TB) is the top killer of people living with HIV, TB is also harder to diagnose in people living with HIV than in people who are not. What is more, TB is particularly difficult to diagnose in people living with HIV who have compromised immune systems.
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Tiyese Jeranji
Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 1:43 p.m.·
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TB programs
South Africa’s TB testing numbers have recovered from dramatic COVID-19-related declines in 2020, delegates heard at the opening of the 7th South African TB Conference, held on 13-16 September 2022 in Durban under the theme 'Working together to get TB control back on track'.
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