18th December 2024
Prof Dheda, head of Pulmonology and director of the Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity (CLII) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was honoured with the prestigious Alan Pifer Award at UCT’s 2024 Staff Awards.
18th December 2023
Growing up in India, which for decades has clocked millions of tuberculosis cases each year, Lalita Ramakrishnan was intimately familiar with how devastating the disease can be. The world’s greatest infectious killer, rivaled only by SARS-CoV-2, Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads through the air and infiltrates the airways, in many cases destroying the lungs.
28th November 2023
One reason why so much TB and HIV research can be done in South Africa is quite simply that we have large epidemics of both diseases here. Around 13% of South Africa’s population are living with HIV.
19th October 2023
Together with Prof. Dr. Keertan Dheda from the University of Cape Town, clinical scientists from the Research Center Borstel are investigating the impact of tNGS technology on the treatment outcomes of patients with MDR-TB in a clinical trial in South Africa.
18th March 2023
The study by the US National Institute of Health and the South African Medical Research Council embarked on a case finding of undiagnosed TB in Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein in Cape Town.
Ntsika Majiba from The Argus recently caught up with the researchers for an interview.
9th March 2023
“Rapid treatment initiation remains the most effective way of rendering patients non-infectious. Thus, the XACT case finding strategy could be linked to new advances in TB treatment characterised by shortening of treatment regimens for both drug-sensitive and resistant TB”, said Dheda, PI.
27th January 2023
According to the World Health Organization, of the roughly 10 million people who fall ill with TB annually, over 80% survive.
Unfortunately, as with long Covid, being cured of TB is not always the last hurdle and many people go on to struggle with post-TB lung disease.
Tiyese Jeranji asked local experts about this sometimes-neglected area of TB care.
24th January 2023
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3rd November 2022
A South African public health expert has called on authorities to increase efforts to find tuberculosis (TB) cases instead of waiting for patients to arrive at clinics when they are already at risk of dying.
Sipokazi Fokazi from Times Live reports.
25th October 2022
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine why the pandemic shattered global efforts to control tuberculosis, and ask whether innovations from the covid era could turn the tide against the disease.
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27th September 2022
5th September 2022
TB experts elated as new drug cocktail cuts therapy and reduces side effects
Drug-resistant TB remains a public health threat in SA with a cure rate of just more than 50% for MDR and 27% for XDR.
13th June 2022
HIV has seen large increases in TB cases in the last few decades. Watch UCT's head of Pulmonology and Respiratory Services, Professor Keertan Dheda discuss this with eNCA's Gareth Edwards. Courtesy of #DStv403
19th May 2022
BTZ-043 was profiled in an early phase development study at the UCTLI, sponsored by the EDCTP and German funds in 2019
28th April 2022
Prof Rod Dawson, Managing Director of the UCT Lung Institute attends the handover of two Ford Custom Transporter vehicles from Mekor Ford Claremont
30th March 2022
Professor Keertan Dheda, head of the University of Cape Town’s Division of Pulmonology, and of Respiratory Services speaks to Spotlight
26th March 2022
There was a significant reduction in tuberculosis (TB) testing and case detection across South Africa in the past two years
26th March 2022
TB is still a major problem in South Africa, mostly in the third world, but it can be cured, provided you get treatment
24th March 2022
Watch this special programme featuring TB champions and medical specialists on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March
24th March 2022
24th March 2022
Tuberculosis has killed more than 1.5 million people globally and South Africa saw 61 000 deaths in 2020
23rd March 2022
The global tuberculosis burden remains substantial, with more than 10 million people newly ill per year
22nd March 2022
In many African countries, there were more deaths from tuberculosis than from COVID-19
25th March 2021
Times LIVE – Sipokazi Fokazi – 25 March 2021 – 08:00 The year 2020 has become synonymous with Covid-19, but a new report by the WHO […]
10th May 2020
eNCA interview – 10 May 2020 People have been given the green light to go jogging and do light exercise but concerns have been raised that […]
24th March 2020
20th January 2020
15th January 2020
eNCA – 15 Jan 2020 Tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease, however, it still claims millions of lives every year. In South Africa alone there […]
12th June 2019
Jun 12, 2019 | Madeleine Johnson NEW YORK (360 Dx) – Tuberculosis infection is the most common cause of death for people living with HIV globally, but […]
18th April 2019
Researchers from the University of Cape Town have found that the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera could potentially increase women’s risk of contracting TB. A breakthrough study by […]
15th April 2019
A breakthrough study conducted by Professor Keertan Dheda and Dr Michele Tomasicchio, at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, has […]
17th September 2018
Photo: Prof. Tanner, Prof. Keertan Dheda, Dr Simão Prof Dheda was presented with the Scientific Leadership Prize at the EDCTP opening ceremony of the Ninth Forum […]
31st March 2017
You know you have a cough coming on – your chest starts to feel tight and there’s a constant tickle in your throat. So you head […]
25th March 2017
The rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) threatens to derail decades of progress in the fight against the disease, experts warn in a new report published in […]
9th February 2017
Tuberculosis has killed more than a billion people over the last two centuries. A new UCT-led study had the myriad undiagnosed cases of the highly infectious […]
20th January 2017
Cape Town | A recent randomized controlled trial revealed that 53% more patients initiated therapy for tuberculosis (TB) after a new diagnostic tool (GeneXpert MTB/RIF) was used […]