My name is Pat Bond, and I am a registered nurse who was working in a private dialysis unit in Cape Town, South Africa when I contracted MDR TB in 2010. I was initially diagnosed with a lung infection, and treated with antibiotics and a corticosteroid inhaler. My health did not improve, but I continued...
May 13 2014 at 10:15am By Chelsea Geach Comment on this story Cape Town – Young, inexperienced, exhausted. And your life is in their hands. Junior doctors across South Africa are asleep on their feet as they are forced to work shifts lasting up...
Getting rural right is a 40 minute documentary which focuses on the key challenges in rural healthcare in the Transkei, which is in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. With honesty and passion, this documentary examines the harsh reality of rural healthcare in the Transkei, and across the country. A must see, this humbling...
Posted by Angela Pereira on Mar 24, 2014 “People think they are TB proof, but they’re not.” These words of caution come from Arne von Delft, a South African doctor whose wife, Dalene – also a doctor in South Africa – survived a two-year battle with drug-resistant TB. Their powerful story has been documented in many articles...
By Laura Lopez Gonzalez on March 24, 2014 in Multimedia, Tuberculosis (TB) It took one cough and a sputter to change the life of a West Rand doctor after she contracted extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Johannesburg’s Lerato Hospital. Now, her choice to be part of a clinical access programme aimed at introducing a new...
It’s Christmas; you’re in a hospital isolation ward, sleep-deprived and depressed, bilious and sometimes swallowing your own vomit to keep the pills down, with a painful 3 cm hole in your lung and slowly going deaf – that’s how it was for one unfortunate Somerset West doctor two years ago. Now remove aspiring paediatrician Dr...
Posted on 10 November 2014 by RESULTS UK| Leave a comment My name is Zolelwa Sifumba. I am 24 years of age and am from East London, South Africa. I am a medical student at the University of Cape Town and I am also a Multidrug resistant TB survivor. I contracted TB while doing clinical...
Professor Alimuddin Zumla – Honorary Member of TB Proof: We are delighted to welcome our first Honorary Member, Prof Ali Zumla – fellow African, occupational TB meningitis survivor, TB researcher and activist extraordinaire! http://www.unza-uclms.org/ali-zumla-profile
