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Cuban doctors on call in the North West
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After observing a strict two-week quarantine, the Cuban cohort of doctors and medical health professionals are ready for deployment across the province.
African pandemic solutions require integrated approach
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By looking at some of the lessons learnt from the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, the way to effectively tackle Covid-19 becomes clearer, writes Webster Mavhu.
Virus is here to stay: Citizen responsibility to reduce transmission of Covid-19 
Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
People world over need to change their lifestyles and adapt their behaviour to live in a very different world compared to before the Covid-19 outbreak, experts agree. Writes Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla.
Here’s what South African nurses want
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Although the ‘mouth, eyes and ears of the vulnerable and the defenceless’ nurses struggle with dangerous understaffing, equipment and medicine shortages and meagre salaries.
More than six million new TB cases worldwide by 2025 warns report
Thabo Molelekwa
Whilst global and national attention is focussed on one respiratory illness – Covid-19 – tuberculosis (TB) treatment and testing is falling to the wayside. Some health professionals say that TB testing needs to be linked to Covid-19 testing to remedy this.
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