South African jails are making notable strides in screening for, and curing, tuberculosis.
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/ 20 November 2015
But ridding the planet of curable and preventable tuberculosis will tax the world’s existing resources.
Healthy lungs don’t mean you’re off the hook: tuberculosis can take root anywhere in the body.
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/ 12 November 2015
A TB patient finally gets a disability grant and a woman has free access to the world’s most expensive drug.
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/ 3 November 2015
A report notes that TB rates sky-rocketed in the 1990s fuelled by the HIV epidemic, and warns of a similar situation with diabetes-related TB.
A change in mind-set is required because feeding schemes alone cannot put an end to malnutrition.
Patients in the Eastern Cape’s rural areas could wait up to 29 hours for an ambulance, according to an SAHRC report released on Thursday.
South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.
Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.
According to a Unicef report, South Africa has reduced its child mortality rate from 60 deaths per every 1 000 live births in 1990 to 41 in 2015.