Lindiwe Faye

Bridging the Gap Between Treatment and Accountability: DR-TB Outcomes and Governance Signals in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2020–2024)

Background: Monitoring treatment outcomes is central to evaluating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) programmes and ensuring accountability, particularly in high-burden settings such as South Africa. However, routine surveillance data are often constrained by small sample sizes...

Network Analysis of Ct-Derived Molecular Resistance Marker Pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Deciphering Drug-Resistance Architectures in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa

Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge, particularly in high-burden settings where rapid characterization of resistance patterns is important for surveillance. Molecular diagnostics routinely detect resistance-associated targets, but these...