On Monday, deputy president Paul Mashatile, will deliver the keynote address at the national World TB Day commemorative event ...
While the leading cause of death in 2020 was found to have been ... NON-COMMUNICABLE diseases have, according to Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) latest Mortality and Causes of Death report ...
which are not in the top in the official causes of death data," Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of ...
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said South Africa has become a high burden country because of Tuberculosis.
According to the Presidency, South Africa is one of the countries most affected by TB and remains the leading cause of death in the country, claiming approximately 56 000 lives each year, with 54% of ...
In fact, TB is the leading cause of death for people living ... in sub-Saharan Africa and throughout the Global South. We need new medicines for TB, to shorten the treatment time and make it ...