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USAID Cuts Are Scary News For Zimbabwe’s TB And HIV Patients

Post author By lmacret
Post date March 10, 2025

Outside Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare. Linda Mujuru/GPJ

The sudden halt of USAID funding threatens the country’s fragile TB and HIV response, putting thousands of patients at risk.

Tags aids, donald trump, health, health care system, health workers, hiv, international development, ministry of health, tb battle, tuberculosis, united states, us president donald, usaid, zimbabwe

Geopolitics

Mandela Back In Hospital With Lung Infection, Zuma Asks World To Pray

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Post date March 28, 2013

AFP; MAIL & GUARDIAN, NEWS24 (South Africa); SOWETAN LIVE (Soweto) Worldcrunch JOHANNESBURG – Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrent lung infection. The news was confirmed by current President Jacob Zuma’s office on Thursday morning, according to Cape Town’s News24. Mandela in 2008. Photo by South Africa The […]

Tags hospital, johannesburg, Lung infection, madiba, nelson mandela, nobel peace prize, robben island, south africa, tuberculosis

Society

Saving Brigitte’s Elephants: A Controversial Death Sentence At The Lyon Zoo

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Post date January 16, 2013

Baby and Nepal in their enclosure in Lyon's Parc de la TÃªte d'Or anod1

French sex symbol turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is shining a light on Baby and Nepal, two former circus elephants infected with tuberculosis, now facing euthanasia.

Tags animals, Brigitte Bardot, france, peta, safety, tuberculosis

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