Abstract
South Africa is struggling to contain an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis which has now spread to all the countrys provinces according to the Department of Health and threatens to hamper HIV/AIDS treatment plans. Clare Kapp reports from South Africa. WHO is sending a permanent staff member to be based in South Africa to advise authorities struggling with an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. The Department of Health says there have now been 269 confirmed cases of XDR tuberculosis and that it has spread from the province of KwaZulu-Natal where it was first confirmed to all parts of South Africa. But Karin Weyer tuberculosis research director at the Medical Research Council (MRC) said nobody really knows the true number of cases because of laboratory and diagnostics constraints and inconsistencies in reporting. So far there have been no reported cases in neighbouring southern African countries but Weyner believes that this is because they simply do not have the laboratory testing facilities. (excerpt)
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