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At least 6% of people diagnosed with tuberculosis in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa last year had a drug-resistant strain of the disease. This was reported by Medicines Sans Frontieres in a report on its pilot programme in the township.
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AIDS is killing so many politicians in southern Africa that their deaths are threatening the ability of governments and local authorities to function properly, a Cape Town researcher warns. South Africa alone is losing 28,000 young voters a month to AIDS.
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A warning has been sounded by top South African psychiatrist Prof. Matshepo Matoane that the country's combined TB and AIDS epidemics among black soldiers are 'having a lethal impact on its military forces'. Her warning should also be heeded by the US...
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Two ancient diseases which mankind had beaten are back with a vengeance. And it's our own fault. Yet , scientists say, we can still stop our growing drug-resistance to malaria and tuberculosis medicine if mankind just stopped overdosing on antibiotics.
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A 20-year-old depressed South African woman suffered 100% burns after torching herself Saturday in Soweto; just the latest victim of the suicide epidemic , mainly due to HIV-AIDS . However ''Speaking Books' are now thrown into the fight to prevent them...
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A South African high court judge has ordered the country's prisons department to immediately hand over a secret report about the death of a prisoner who was given antiretroviral treatment far too late and died within just weeks of starting treatment.
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The Indian Ocean harbour city of Durban has thousands of street urchins. This week they got to talk to the British ambassador Paul Boateng to show him around their brand-new "Safe Space' which opened on Dec 1.
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Afrikaners across the entire political spectrum, from famous left-wing dissident author Breyten Breytenbach to the only parliamentarian of the conservative Freedom Front opposition party, warn that the ruling ANC is plunging South Africa into civil war.
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The South African health-care system is showing a steady collapse which is worrying health officials countrywide. Yet nobody seems able to turn the problem around - there are far too many patients and not enough medical staff to treat them.
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A Cornish alpaca owner, who received an award for her campaign for compulsory TB testing of the animals, contracts the illness herself.
A scientist who advises on the control of bovine TB resigns over the Welsh government's reversal of a planned badger cull.
The UK announces that people coming to the UK from countries with a high incidence of TB will be screened before being granted a visa of more than six months.
A pupil at a Belfast primary school is being treated for tuberculosis.
Plans to cull badgers as part of an attempt to wipe out bovine TB in cattle are dropped by the Welsh government.
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