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TB in children isn’t being controlled
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TB in children isn’t being controlled

TB expert says SA needs to rebuilt prisons
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TB expert says SA needs to rebuilt prisons

Babes Wodumo
Celeb News

‘Babes Wodumo never visited her in hospital’: Mampintsha’s sister

TB in children isn’t being controlled
Health and Fitness

TB in children isn’t being controlled

TB expert says SA needs to rebuilt prisons
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TB expert says SA needs to rebuilt prisons

Babes Wodumo
Celeb News

‘Babes Wodumo never visited her in hospital’: Mampintsha’s sister

Mampintsha-mom-zamanguni-gumede-Babes-Wodumo
Celeb News

Mampintsha’s sister shares mom Zamanguni Gumede’s last words

By Nokuthula Ngcobo16-01-2023 11:53

Mampintsha’s sister Pinki has shared her mother Zamanguni Gumede’s last words following her passing on Sunday at the age of 64.

Mampintsha mom Babes Wodumo Funeral Arrangements
Celeb News

Babes Wodumo’s family not convinced Mampintsha’s mom is sick

By Nokuthula Ngcobo13-01-2023 10:01

Babes Wodumo’s family and Mampintsha’s maternal family are still at war following his death and his mother’s hospitalisation.

HIV remains a leading killer in Africa
Africa News

HIV remains a leading killer in Africa despite medical breakthroughs

By The Conversation10-01-2023 19:48

About 38 million people around the world are living with HIV. About 70% of them live in Africa.

New medicine
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New TB drug-resistant medicine is more safer and convenient

By Ground Up23-12-2022 14:19

Study, published in New England Journal Medicine, shows that a new regimen is safer and more effective than the current standard of care.

TB
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TB treatment may be in a common carbohydrate. What we know so far

By The Conversation17-08-2022 22:35

Researchers discovered that Curdlan a popular carbohydrate produces a bacteria which triggers antibacterial responses in organisms.

Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria
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Global Fund grants SA R8.8bn to combat HIV/Aids, Malaria and TB

By Nathan Craig13-05-2022 11:37

The whopping $547m (R8.8bn) from the Global Fund is earmarked for programmes tasked with eradicating HIV/Aids, Malaria and TB.

Toy Story: How orgasms helped me heal
Lifestyle

Toy Story: Woman tells all about how orgasms helped her heal

By Ground Up08-06-2021 13:17

In this video Makgosi Letimile explains how she used sex toys to help relieve incontinence. She discovered them through a friend.

tb tuberculosis south africa
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SA looks at ‘innovative ways’ for screening and treating TB

By Cheryl Kahla06-02-2021 10:08

South has been designated as a high burden country regarding TB, with approximately 60 000 TB deaths annually.

Coronavirus TB HIV sufferers
Lifestyle

Here’s how coronavirus can affect TB and HIV sufferers in South Africa

By Andrea Chothia12-03-2020 14:05

Most of us have by now heard that those with preconditions like HIV and TB are more susceptible to the coronavirus, here’s how to manage it.

UCT’s leading TB researcher re
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UCT’s leading TB researcher receives top international science prize

By University of Cape Town08-10-2018 13:14

Leading tuberculosis (TB) researcher and head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Division of Pulmonology, Professor Keertan Dheda, has been awarded the 2018 Scientific Leadership prize by the prestigious European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).

“You see yourself vanishing an
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“You see yourself vanishing and you think: I’m going to die”

By Ground Up28-11-2014 08:39

Andaleeb Rinquest remembers the moment she accepted, with certainty, the imminence of her own death.

Life after HIV: how a trans se
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Life after HIV: how a trans sex worker stays safe on the streets

By Ground Up23-10-2014 10:17

After workiing on the streets for many years, Leigh Davids knows where to go for health treatment — and it’s not the local clinic

Does the carnage on S. Africa’
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Does the carnage on S. Africa’s roads claim more lives than AIDS and TB?

By Africa Check23-10-2014 09:19

In South Africa at least 5,000 people are killed on the country’s roads every year. Or is it closer to 14,000? Or more than those dying of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, as has been claimed?

67 South Africans dead after a
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67 South Africans dead after a building collapse in Nigeria

By Deva Lee16-09-2014 22:07

President Zuma has confirmed that 67 South Africans have died after the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday 12 September in Lagos

Ask the experts – TB Tests for
South Africans Abroad

Ask the experts – TB Tests for UK visas

By Breytenbachs12-09-2014 11:32

My parents want to come and visit me in the UK for three months. Do they need to take a TB test before applying for their UK visitor visa?

SA scientists helping to devel
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SA scientists helping to develop ‘game-changing’ TB drug

By TheSouthAfrican.com25-08-2014 10:54

The trial results of a three-drug combination called PaMZ, unveiled at the International Aids Conference in Melbourne last month, offer hope of the first new medication in half a century for the widespread treatment of tuberculosis – and one which also has the potential to cure multi-drug-resistant TB.

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