The country’s health system is ravaged, but a team of volunteer doctors visit regularly: operating on the desperate and training local medical staff.
More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.
Only six out of ten Angolan children have been vaccinated against yellow fever.
The regimen for children is bitter adult drugs, which are taken over an extended period – and it’s worse in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
There are fears that, because the LAM measure is easily administered, it could be used when conditions call for more detailed analysis.
Early diagnosis, a simple test, vector curbs and a new medicine is effective in many areas, but South Sudan can’t rely on this treatment.
A promising new TB drug is now on the market but doctors say it’s been priced out of reach.
South Africans had high hopes when Riah Phiyega stepped into office as national police commissioner last year. Those hopes, it seems, were misplaced.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced sweeping cuts to the pricey perks enjoyed by civil servants.
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