Tanzania: When Giant Rats Work 'Smarter' Than Hospitals All Africa [Citizen] Mwajuma Bajuni's grandson was coughing and experiencing night sweats with persistent fever for several months. The family didn't know he had tuberculosis (TB), despite undergoing medical tests at the country's major referral hospital, Muhim...
Trump’s shadow looms over HIV/AIDS funds Business Day Multibillion-rand funding to SA from the US government’s flagship HIV/AIDS programme hangs in the balance as Washington prepares to usher in a new administration. | SA has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the US President’s Emerge...
Six things to know about the bovine TB outbreak: CFIA’s chief veterinary officer Canadian Business OTTAWA – More than 22,000 cattle at farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are quarantined due to bovine tuberculosis, causing hardship for ranchers and millions in compensation payments and other costs. | The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is test...
Zimbabwe: Matebeleland South Province Leads in TB Deaths Topix MATABELELAND South Province has the highest number of tuberculosis related deaths in the country. About 309 people, a majority of them locals based in South Africa, commonly referred to as Injiva, have died of TB between January and September this ye...
Zimbabwe: Matebeleland South Province Leads in TB Deaths All Africa [The Herald] MATABELELAND South Province has the highest number of tuberculosis related deaths in the country. About 309 people, a majority of them locals based in South Africa, commonly referred to as Injiva, have died of TB between January and Sept...
Fresh hope for Kandahar newborns as Afghan healthcare gets a shot in the arm The Guardian Infant mortality rates in Afghanistan were once among the world’s worst, but a new children’s unit at Kandahar’s Mirwais hospital is accelerating slow progress | Global development is supported by About this content | Among the tiniest of the p...
World Aids Day: When drugs stop working on HIV.... DNA India 125 patients registered on 3rd line treatment in India | Armed with three empty pill bottles, Khem Chand (48) is seen sitting in a queue of hundreds of patients at Lok Nayak Hospital’s Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre. Chand realised that h...
World Aids Day: Woman reels from HIV, TB and cancer, all at once DNA India In a span of two years, she grapples with over three diseases | Vinita Sharma, 35, keeps staring into space while waiting for her turn in the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). In the past fou...
