Private practitioners treating tuberculosis patients will now have to report each case to the state health department. The aim is to improve private doctors' participation as well as to ensure appropriate and effective treatment of the disease.

South Africa wants to test hundreds of thousands of miners for tuberculosis and ensure sufferers get treatment over the next year, a government health official said Tuesday.

The epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis remain a threat to national security in Ukraine and require redoubled efforts to treat and prevent these diseases, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council Andriy Kliuyev said.

According to the District Health Barometer, TB and HIV are still the main causes of death. But the Barometer reveals that some districts have shown great improvements in tackling these diseases.

The annual budget to combat tuberculosis (TB), the deadly air-borne disease, for 2012-13 will see about 80% increase over last fiscal. While, the country's annual health budget is set to increase by a meagre 13% this year, the Planning Commission has decided to raise allocation for the TB control programme to about Rs 710 crore for 2012-13.

Experts from the World health organization and the Ministry of public health have indicated that there are some 500 cases of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in Cameroon.

Having tuberculosis patients wear a surgical mask all day cuts the likelihood of them transmitting the infection through the air by nearly half, according to a new study from South Africa.

Updated WHO guidance launched today scales up effective public health interventions to reduce TB deaths for people living with HIV.

Dudley Lee's case reveals how overcrowding and a struggling court system are fuelling a TB epidemic.

Latent tuberculosis appears to protect people from developing active TB if they're reinfected, Boston-based researchers report.