Africa’s miners face new TB threat as pandemic disrupts treatment
Ermelo, South Africa Thomson Reuters Foundation Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis due to skipping treatment under lockdown. In just four months, it happened 60 times. When COVID-19 shut South Africa’s mines, workers from Jele’s homeland eSwatini and other neighbouring nations […]
Seasonal flu reports hit record lows amid global social distancing
Beijing, China Reuters Global social distancing rules targeting coronavirus have pushed influenza infection rates to a record low, early figures show, signalling that the measures are having an unprecedented impact on other communicable diseases. In China, where the earliest wide-scale lockdown measures began, new reports of diseases including mumps, measles and some sexually transmitted diseases, […]
Christians urged to join letter writing campaign calling for greater action on TB
Christians are being encouraged to join a letter-writing campaign urging greater action to tackle tuberculosis. The campaign, which is being run by the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, is calling on faith leaders, churches, representatives of faith-based organisations and people of faith to ask to their governments to urgently take action to end […]