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VIDEO: TB Aware: Lungi Langa

VIDEO: TB Aware: Lungi Langa

11th November 2015 | Spotlight

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Health journalist Lungi Langa shares her journey of being diagnosed with TB, surviving the horrid treatment and then having to deal with her daughter also being diagnosed with TB.
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