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The evening train to Khayelitsha

19 June 2018

It is 17:35 and one of the trains to Khayelitsha departs from Cape Town's train station. The masses of people travelling on this line are packed into the train coaches. The carriages get so full that people hang out of the windows and doors or stand in between the coaches. This of course is a dangerous activity but cannot be

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Nolungile Community Health Centre in Khayelitsha

12 June 2018

South Africa is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB), with the World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics giving an estimated incidence of 450,000 cases of active TB in 2013. So almost 1% of the population of about 50 million develop active TB disease each year. This is worldwide the third highest incidence of any country after

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