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Kick TB – Started in 2010, the Kick TB! initiative takes advantage of South Africa's national preoccupation with soccer by printing TB facts and health care instructions on soccer balls. The initiative was widely successful, reaching over 55,000 primary school students.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health institute of South Africa, [1] providing reference to microbiology, virology, epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government's response to communicable disease threats. [2] [3]
In 2006 an outbreak of XDR-TB South Africa was first reported as a cluster of 53 patients in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, with all but one dying. [78] The mean survival from sputum specimen collection to death was only 16 days and that the majority of patients had never previously received treatment for tuberculosis.
Multiple US agencies rolled out new public health rules as a result of the TB spread: the CDC brought in new guidelines mandating HEPA filters and HEPA respirators, [127] NIOSH pushed through new 42 CFR 84 respirator regulations in 1995 (like the N95), [128] and OSHA created a proposed rule for TB in 1997, a result of pressure from groups like ...
Fort Grey TB Hospital is a specialised Provincial government-funded Tuberculosis and Chest hospital situated in East London, Eastern Cape in South Africa.It was established in 1955 and used to be a SANTA TB hospital.
Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS, also known as TB-DOTS) is the name given to the tuberculosis (TB) control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization. [1] According to WHO, "The most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by curing it.
MDR-TB caused an estimated 600,000 new TB cases and 240,000 deaths in 2016 and MDR-TB accounts for 4.1% of all new TB cases and 19% of previously treated cases worldwide. [13] Globally, most MDR-TB cases occur in South America, Southern Africa, India, China, and the former Soviet Union. [14]
TB Alliance was conceived at a February 2000 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, where 120 representatives from academia, industry, major government agencies, non-governmental organizations and donors gathered to discuss the problems of tuberculosis treatment. Participants stressed the need for faster-acting, novel TB drugs and highlighted the ...