🇿🇦 South Africa 1h ago · Hein Kaiser

Social and systemic failures blamed for ongoing TB crisis

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Social and systemic failures blamed for ongoing TB crisis
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Tuberculosis continues to haunt South Africa despite decades of treatment advances, with health experts warning that the disease is thriving in the same conditions that have fuelled poverty, overcrowding and unequal access to healthcare on a sustained basis in the country.



The warning comes as global tuberculosis statistics revealed that 10.7 million people fell ill with TB during 2024, while 1.5 million people died from the disease, making it the world’s deadliest infectious killer. So

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