online documents

• A National Study to Identify Factors Associated with Default from Tuberculosis Treatment, South Africa, 2002 - Results from a case-control study in 8 provinces (pdf format, 748 kb)
• Extensive drug-resistant tuberculosis and health care workers
  • Epidemiology and diagnosis
  • Treatment and Prevention
  • Personal protection
  • Tuberculosis infection control in the working environment
• Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2009 - 26 March 2009
• About 25% of TB Deaths Occur Among HIV-Positive People, WHO Global TB Control Report Says - 26 March 2009
• More tuberculosis, more research
• March issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases focuses on TB ahead of World TB Day - 24 March 2009
• Ultraviolet Lights Could Reduce TB Spread in Hospitals, Study Says - 17 March 2009
• TB Associated With Increased Lung Cancer Risk, Study Says - 17 March 2009
• Zimbabwe Could Face Rising MDR-TB Prevalence, Officials Say, February 2009
• New Compound That Destroys TB Bacteria Could Lead to Development of Single TB Drug, Study Says, February 2009
• About 20% of People With TB Report Substance Abuse; Trend Could Lead to Public Health Challenges, Study Says, 28 January 2009
• Guidelines for the Utilisation of Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) technology in controlling transmission of Tuberculosis in Health Care facilities in South Africa (pdf format, 167 kb)
• Increase in HIV/TB Coinfection Leads to Rising TB Prevalence in Guyana, 26 November 2008
• Insufficient DOTS Coverage Leads to Increased MDR-TB Prevalence in Nepal, Official Says, 21 November 2008
• TB Control Progress Requires Integrating TB Services With Health System Strengthening, Health Officials Say at Stop TB Partnership Symposium, 16 October 2008
• Children Should Be Involved in TB Treatment Research, PLoS Opinion Piece Says, 20 August 2008
• World TB Day Aims To Promote TB Prevention Worldwide, 1 April 2008
• TB Cases Recorded at Lowest Levels in U.S., Decline Slowing, CDC Study Says, 21 March 2008
• World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative Releases Report About TB 13 March 2008
• No Increased Risk of Death Among People Taking Antiretroviral Drugs, TB Treatment, Study Says 7 February 2008
• Researchers Test Electronic Pillbox To Increase TB Treatment Adherence 5 February 2008
• Long-Term Efficacy of DOTS Regimens for Tuberculosis: Systematic Review. The research article, published in BMJ, examines TB recurrence after successful DOTS treatment to determine the adequacy of current program guidelines - 4 February 2008
• First Two Cases of XDR-TB Confirmed in Botswana, Health Ministry Says 17 January 2008
• XDR-TB Cases High Among People Living With HIV/AIDS in India - 11 October 2007
• Treatment Adherence High Among People Living With TB in Nepal - 11 October 2007
• Research Project Identifies Key Components of XDR-TB Organism; Findings Could Improve Understanding, Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant TB - 10 October 2007
• TB Experts Meet With Business Leaders To Discuss TB Control in South African Province 7 September 2007
• Business Day Examines Increasing Number of TB Cases, Control Efforts in South Africa 7 September 2007
• Tuberculosis infection-control in the era of expanding HIV care and treatment (pdf format, 2781 kb)
• Detention of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). Position Statement by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), 30 January 2007
• Me and my MDR-TB: Everything you need to know (pdf format, 301 kb)
• Report from the Expert Consultation on Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis:  Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 - 8 September 2006
• International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) - developed by the Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance (TBCTA) (pdf format, 1 519 kb)
• Patient's Charter for Tuberculosis Care - developed by the World Care Council in tandem with the ISTC (pdf format, 908 kb)
• Genetic link could say why some get TB
  Research by the MRC/US Centre for Mollecular and Cellular Biology has helped identify a new genetic link to people's susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB). Tuberculosis, which kills two million people every year, is caused by a bacterium that is so widespread in South Africa that most people have been exposed to it. Yet, only ten per cent of those infected develop the disease.
• Faster TB treatment sees the light
  A new combination treatment for TB is set to ‘dramatically’ reduce the six months it usually takes to cure TB patients. The phase II clinical trials of the treatment were conducted by the MRC in Durban.
• Managing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Legal implications. (pdf format 718 kb)
• Factors Associated with Default from Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment, South Africa, 1999-2001 (pdf format, 206 kb)
• DOTS-Plus for standardised management of multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa
  • Policy guidelines (pdf format, 311 kb)
  • Annexures 1 - 4 (pdf format, 529 kb)
  • Annexures 5 - 26 (pdf format, 649 kb)
• National survey of tuberculosis drug resistance in South Africa, 2001-2002
• Survey of tuberculosis drug resistance in Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Western Cape, 2001-2002
• General information on TB
• TB research at the Medical Research Council
• Working to stop TB with DOTS
• Ongoing Research in Tuberculosis in South Africa
• Integrating traditional healers into a tuberculosis control programme in Hlabisa, South Africa (MRC policy brief - December 2001)