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Turning the tide against TB: Treatment alone won’t work

The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.

  • Linda-Gail Bekker
5 min read
‘You see, for some, when they are caught out undermining clean governance for the people, and zero tolerance for corruption, they move towards racial victimhood,’ Mmusi Maimane said. (David Harrison/M&G)
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Undercover tuberculosis: How SA’s top killer slips in under the radar

Healthy lungs don’t mean you’re off the hook: tuberculosis can take root anywhere in the body.

  • Amy Green
7 min read
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SA sets high target for TB cures

South Africa’s tuberculosis (TB) cure rate will reach 85% over the next five years, the Department of Health vowed on Thursday. Releasing the final version of its latest TB…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read