Cutting Edge TB management
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NDoH Guidelines for TB management since 2009 are in the RuDASA Resource Library
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WHO has a number of TB treatment Guidelines, TB Programme Planning and the Global Tuberculosis Reports. |
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The Centre for Tuberculosis (CTB) was established in 2012. In line with the mandate of the NICD, the CTB conducts laboratory-based public health surveillance of TB in South Africa. It continues to serve as a National TB reference laboratory (NTBRL) and was endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a supranational reference laboratory in 2016. The CTB assisted in developing the WHO TB Policies & Guidelines.Electronic notification of TB cases can be done via the NMC APP. |
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Dr Madeleine Muller is a family physician working in Eastern Cape who posts TB resources for doctors on the Yandisa Facebook page and training videos on YouTube. |
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SANTA was formed in 1947 to give care to TB sufferers and their families. This includes: health education programmes, managed TB prevention schemes, training health educators and TB prevention programmes in schools. Now SANTA continues its fight against TB but with a new emphasis on training volunteers in DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-course). https://santa.org.za |