| SOUTH AFRICA: Busisiwe Beko, "I'm pregnant, I've got HIV and also TB" |
 | DURBAN، 15/6/2012 (IRIN) - In 2005, Busisiwe Beko realized she was pregnant. She also found out she was HIV-positive, and that she had active tuberculosis (TB). Then she developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and for the next year struggled to get proper, timely treatment for her and her baby daughter, who contracted MDR-TB. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: First nurses trained to initiate MDR-TB treatment |
 | DURBAN، 19/6/2012 (IRIN) - South Africa will increasingly move towards nurse-initiated treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the next five years, and a programme in KwaZulu-Natal Province, which has a high HIV/TB burden, is already training nurses to manage MDR-TB patients. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Overcrowding fuels TB in prisons |
 | DURBAN، 19/6/2012 (IRIN) - Tuberculosis (TB) rates in South Africa's prisons could be cut by up to 94 percent if the country reduced overcrowded conditions in cells and implemented active TB case finding, according to research presented at the recent South African TB Conference. full report |
| In Brief: Rain in Comoros brings flooding, crop damage, disease |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 20/6/2012 (IRIN) - Some 65,000 people on the Comoros islands, or 8 percent of the population, were affected by flooding, power outages and an increased incidence of disease following heavy rains during the wet season that runs from November through to May. full report |