Noncommunicable disease deaths now outstrip TB, HIV, but SA looks the other way
Report by WHO notes that this major shift in public health in recent decades ‘has gone largely unnoticed’
21 September 2022 - 15:07
For many years tuberculosis was the number one killer in SA, but there is now a new highway taking many people to their graves — noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes and cancer...
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