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News24: Unlikely Faces of TB

27 March 2012
TB,MDR-TB, Phumeza Tisile, South Africa, MSF, multidrug resistant, Turberculosis
Phumeza Tisile looks out of her bedroom window at Lizo Nobando TB Care Centre, Khayelitsha, Western Cape. Photo: Sam Reinders
Cape Town - Two years ago Phumeza Tisile was looking forward to completing her studies in human resources and like every young person, she envisaged a bright future. Unfortunately her hopes and dreams were shattered when she was diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)... Such are the heartbreaking stories of people seriously affected by TB. According to reports, South Africa has a serious TB epidemic, with about 10 000 patients diagnosed with MDR-TB in 2009. Many patients are not even diagnosed. The country also has the second-highest TB burden in the world. Read full article here.
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SAMJ: Answering when opportunity knocks - SATS goes global

01 March 2012
MSF, Pakistan, emergency medicine, Triage Score, SATS
Dr Mohammed Dalwai with colleagues at Timugara hospital, Pakistan where he helped implement the South African Triage Score (SATS). Photo: MSF
One local doctor, by grasping random overlapping educational opportunities, has become the catalyst for 'Doctors without Borders' (MSF) wanting to adopt the South African Triage Scale (SATS) as its standard emergency protocol for resource-poor countries world-wide. MSF volunteer and Stellenbosch University-trained Dr Mohammed Dalwai tested out the highly flexible and simpleto-use SATS in an emergency room at Timugara Hospital in Pakistan's volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province - emerging with a 96% correct triage rate... Read full article below.
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Five Lives: Getting on to effective TB treatment earlier

27 October 2011
Getting on to effective TB treatment earlier
Getting on to effective TB treatment earlier
Life 3: Phumeza South Africa 2011 © Samantha Reinder " I had so many different tests but they still couldn't see what was wrong. I just got more sick." At 21 years old Phumeza should have her whole life to look forward to. Right now she’s confined to a bed in a tuberculosis (TB) care centre in Khayelitsha near Cape Town, South Africa on treatment for the most virulent form of TB currently known –  extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB.  Last year for the first time in ten years the number of people dying from TB worldwide dropped but still every year we miss diagnosing and treating around three million cases of TB. And half of those...
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