What is the future of the mining industry in South Africa regarding health conditions for the miners?
It’s very problematic. It seems that if the mining industry acts on its own to address the problem it’s not enough. The country, the government, health infrastructure, everybody needs to address the problem; not just of TB, but of HIV, silicosis and general access to health care. It’s a very difficult problem to tackle. Treatment in of itself is not enough, you need to prevent the disease and they don’t seem to be doing an adequate job of understanding how to prevent the disease. It will be very challenging to reduce the TB rate without a new TB vaccine, with the current tools that are available and current infrastructure it is a very big problem to address. Q: Is there a role for the global community? A: TB is a problem across the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is a big problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) half of the necessary funding is available right now to effectively deal with the TB problem. As far as a global solution I think more money i
