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South Africa: When Dated Drugs Are the Only Weapon
allAfrica, 21 March 2013
Somewhere between walking out her front door in Cape Town, taking a taxi to college and hanging out with friends, Phumeza Tisile caught tuberculosis. Read more »
The Lizo Nobanda TB Care Centre is run by Medecins Sans Frontieres. It is a short-stay facility with just 10 beds in the heart of Khayelitsha.
In South Sudan, decades of civil war have left the health care system severely depleted. For this reason, South Sudan's strategy to fight ... see more »
The first tuberculosis (TB) vaccine to be tested for efficacy in infants in more than 40 years has proved ineffective as a TB booster shot. Read more »
A study carried out on multidrug-resistant TB shows that the disease is evolving and is becoming expensive to treat. Read more »
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