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XDR-TB cure coverage a mixed bag
Last week JournAIDS featured a blog about a City Press article that put a human face on XDR-TB (Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis).
But a subsequent blink-and-you’ll-miss-it report on XDR-TB patient Andaleeb Ringquest-January’s long road to recovery in The New Age (TNA) is decidedly lacklustre in comparison.
What the report manages well is to effectively communicate the family’s struggle to help and support Andaleeb though the trials and tribulations of her illness. But the picture-less piece is relegated to page 8 of a sub-section of the paper; an indication of story’s failure to really grab the reader’s attention.
Facing XDR-TB
City Press restores the humanity of XDR-TB sufferers through an account of the personal experience of Dimakatso Montshiwagae, the first person to be successfully cured of this virulent disease.
XDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB) has repeatedly whipped South Africa up into frenzied alarm since the shocking and deadly outbreak of XDR-TB in Tugela Ferry in 2006.
IN THE NEWS: Drug offers hope to victims of XDR TB
A promising new drug now on trial offers the last hope for some patients with extreme drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, and the life or death decision on whether to make it available rests with the Medicines Control Council (MCC).IN THE NEWS: Extreme TB cases cured by hospital
The extreme drug resistant (XDR)TB unit in Klerksdorp-Tshepong Hospital has made a TB treatment breakthrough after three patients with advanced TB were successfully treated at the centre.ANALYSIS: Sowetan shines a light on TB-stigma
An article in today’s (15 March 2012) Sowetan recounting the experience of a woman who was cured of extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB), is a sensitive and multifaceted portrayal which shines a spotlight on the stigma that people who have TB face while highlighting that TB is a serious but curable condition.
The stigma faced by people with TB is often overshadowed by the concerns over HIV-related prejudice and discrimination.
But by recounting the experiences of Mmaphefo Mohlaoleng and placing the story on page 2, the Sowetan has broken the silence around TB-stigma.
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