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#AIDS2016: Thousands march to demand sufficient global funding and treatment for all

Bhekisisa presents: From paper to provinces — tracking SA’s HIV/TB plan

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Face-off: South Africa argued for patients over profits at the first high-level meeting on tuberculosis. Will it be enough to fight the global scourge?

Showdown: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs

Mitchell Warren -
Daydreams of a health minister: The high-level meeting on TB this week in New York is in part the work of Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

SA experimental TB vaccine is the first in almost a century...

Laura López González -
Nation of the hour: South Africa took on the United States when it went for the mat for affordable medicine access in the world's first UN declaration on TB.

What to expect from the world’s first high-level UN meeting on...

Laura López González -
South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi played a leading role in convening government heads at a United Nations meeting this week.

How South Africa convinced the world to take TB seriously

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What happened when these two men stopped taking their medicine for TB? They were arrested and thrown into police cells.

Why people failing to take their TB treatment should not be...

Michaela Clayton and Annabel Raw -
Most South Africans have the TB germ - so why aren't they sick?

Finding South Africa’s missing TB patients

Bhekisisa Team -
More than 10% of TB cases in Kenya occur among children

Finally, TB pills for children

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Bitter pill: Soweto resident Pamela Mantyi struggles to get insulin from her local clinic because of stock shortages. Photos: Madelene Cronjé

Drug shortages ‘imperil NHI plan’

Mia Malan -
Dr Jennifer Hughes says much of the treatment administered to TB patients is archaic.

TB: A dire struggle to keep up on path of increased...

Jennifer Hughes -
Depression and anxiety are common amongst TB patients and a UCT study says counselling is needed to keep sufferers on treatment.

Collective will can curb TB epidemic

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We danced that night: Funiwe with photographs of her with her late twin sister Funeka at their matric ball in 2008.

Countering TB resistance was futile – but no longer

Amy Green -
Simple solution: A fixed-dose combination ARV pill should make distribution and patient compliance easier.

Report: Eastern Cape still out of HIV, TB drugs

Mia Malan -
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