How Africans can solve health problems that torment us
Uganda, March 24 -- I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety.
The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and diabetes. Feared infectious diseases include HIV/Aids, Covid-19 and cholera.
Even though South Africa and eSwatini are among the more than two dozen African countries with a high burden of either tuberculosis (TB), drug-resistant TB or HIV/TB co-infections, TB is not feared in the same way, even though it is the disease that haunts my people the most.
So many are affected on the...
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