Poverty foils SA's struggle with TB
14 October 2016 - 02:00
South Africa is taking great strides against TB but is being held back by poverty and inequality. While it has a high cure rate and the world's best testing systems, the country also has the world's highest infection rate, says the World Health Organisation 2016 Global TB report released yesterday.
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