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Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, Spotlight, TB, TB

Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks very uncertain for tuberculosis research. Among others, a large TB research programme that was worth up to $200 million was axed last week. Elri Voigt reports.

Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts

Research hub aims to decode health challenges facing ‘people of the dew’

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, HIV/AIDS, InFocus, Latest, North West, Provinces, Spotlight, TB

A new health research hub brings hope of improving health services in the Rustenburg Valley in the North West Province. Nthusang Lefafa finds out more about how the Bafokeng Health and Demographic Surveillance System Node will work and what it has to offer.