South Africa: Mpumalanga Fails On the Health Front

9 February 2007

Mpumalanga's tuberculosis programme is the worst in the country. Its TB cure rate of 32 percent is the lowest in South Africa and has deteriorated from just under 48 percent in 2003.

More than half of Mpumalanga's residents live in rural areas and over 86 percent of people have access to piped water.

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