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Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in...

Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang opened South Africa's first national tuberculosis (TB) conference this week with some welcome good news: her...

The threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been heightened by the displacement of an estimated 300,000 people in Kenya's recent...

As developing countries scale up their antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programmes, more and more people living with HIV are expected to develop...

The Niamina Youth Association Against Malaria (NYAAMA) is taking an efficient and active approach to community participation in the area of malaria...

Every year, tuberculosis (TB) kills an estimated two million people and another nine million develop the disease. In spite of the rising human toll,...