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TB: This pee test could save your life

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This disease is a leading cause of death in SA but preventing it could be as simple as taking a single pill — if the government agrees.

This kills more South Africans than any other disease. There’s a...

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TB remains a leading cause of death in South Africa.

Anyone can catch this drug-resistant bug. Surviving treatment is another story.

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From paper to provinces: Find out how far South African provinces have come in implementing the country's national HIV and TB plan.

WATCH: How far is South Africa in the fight against HIV...

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#AIDS2016: Thousands march to demand sufficient global funding and treatment for all

Bhekisisa presents: From paper to provinces — tracking SA’s HIV/TB plan

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Research shows that drug-resistant TB accounts for a quarter of the 10-million deaths that might be associated with antimicrobial resistance by 2020.

This kills more than 700 of us each day. Now, the...

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Alcohol kills an estimated 2.8-million people each year and not always in the ways you might think.

Why this legal drug may put you at risk for a...

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Face-off: South Africa argued for patients over profits at the first high-level meeting on tuberculosis. Will it be enough to fight the global scourge?

Showdown: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs

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Daydreams of a health minister: The high-level meeting on TB this week in New York is in part the work of Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

SA experimental TB vaccine is the first in almost a century...

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Nation of the hour: South Africa took on the United States when it went for the mat for affordable medicine access in the world's first UN declaration on TB.

What to expect from the world’s first high-level UN meeting on...

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South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi played a leading role in convening government heads at a United Nations meeting this week.

How South Africa convinced the world to take TB seriously

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See what the world's largest HIV programme is planningvideo

See what the world’s largest HIV programme is planning

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An NGO in the Eastern Cape allegedly tested primary school students for HIV without parents' consent and revealed two students' statuses in front of classmates.

Are provinces ready to take the wheel of South Africa’s HIV...

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To uphold Nelson Mandela’s legacy

Nelson Mandela’s words about SA’s twin epidemics as true today as...

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Titoia Kisemei has called the Kajiado District Hospital's manyatta TB ward home since she was diagnosed with the illness. The innovative units are aimed at helping members of the nomadic Maasai adhere to months of TB treatment.

These hospitals have become a home away from home in the...

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What happened when these two men stopped taking their medicine for TB? They were arrested and thrown into police cells.

Why people failing to take their TB treatment should not be...

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