Researchers, policymakers and activists gathered in Hyderabad, India for the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health, held on 30 October – 2 November 2019.

An article published in Spotlight compares prices in recent South African Government tender for TB medicines versus global prices available via the Global Drug Facility. The article covers bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid and rifapentine.

Wedged between mountain and sea on a breathtaking stretch of Cape Peninsula coast, the township of Masiphumelele is home to 23 000 people on about 40 hectares of land.* Despite its name which means ‘we shall succeed’ in isiXhosa, living conditions here are dire. It is overcrowded, sanitation is not what it should be, and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are rife.