{"id":85629,"date":"2017-01-19T00:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-why-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:11:42","slug":"sa-news-why-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-why-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Why Is Extensively Drug-Resistant TB On The Rise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.npr.org%2fsections%2fgoatsandsoda%2f2017%2f01%2f18%2f510435545%2fwhy-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise&#038;c=16605898642642783973&#038;mkt=en-us\">Why Is Extensively Drug-Resistant TB On The Rise?<\/a>: A new study of more than 400 patients in South Africa finds, unfortunately, that the answer appears to be the later. Airborne transmission is the driving force behind a spike in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa, according to &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.npr.org%2fsections%2fgoatsandsoda%2f2017%2f01%2f18%2f510435545%2fwhy-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise&#038;c=16605898642642783973&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.usfinancialnewstoday.com%2fstory%2f107874%2fafricas-expanding-middle-class-rising-gdp-and-business-climate-are-fueling-growth.html&#038;c=17032800908086623234&#038;mkt=en-us\">AFRICA\u2019S EXPANDING MIDDLE CLASS, RISING GDP AND BUSINESS CLIMATE ARE FUELING GROWTH<\/a>: Johannesburg, South Africa \u2013 January 18, 2017 \u2013 Investments in African private equity is rising. Traditionally, the continent\u2019s abundance of natural resources, including mining and exploration, has been the force behind investment interest.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.usfinancialnewstoday.com%2fstory%2f107874%2fafricas-expanding-middle-class-rising-gdp-and-business-climate-are-fueling-growth.html&#038;c=17032800908086623234&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fbhekisisa.org%2farticle%2f2017-01-19-00-police-pounce-on-health-workers-for-giving-clean-water-to-pretoria-drug-users%2f&#038;c=14380441371049546969&#038;mkt=en-us\">Police pounce on health workers for giving clean water to Pretoria drug users<\/a>: People who inject drugs are at a high risk of HIV infection, in part because users may share needles. A five-city study conducted in South Africa found that the HIV prevalence rate among injecting drug users was about 40% higher than that of the general &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fbhekisisa.org%2farticle%2f2017-01-19-00-police-pounce-on-health-workers-for-giving-clean-water-to-pretoria-drug-users%2f&#038;c=14380441371049546969&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.eurekalert.org%2fpub_releases%2f2017-01%2fehs-spn011817.php&#038;c=15748337438357179572&#038;mkt=en-us\">Study provides new evidence on role of person-to person transmission in drug-resistant TB<\/a>: A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine provides compelling evidence that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is spread from person-to-person in the KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa from 2011-2014. The study was &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=02E4CEE55B1D4E00ABECC184FDC5DD0F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.eurekalert.org%2fpub_releases%2f2017-01%2fehs-spn011817.php&#038;c=15748337438357179572&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is Extensively Drug-Resistant TB On The Rise?: A new study of more than 400 patients in South Africa finds, unfortunately, that the answer appears to be the later. Airborne transmission is the driving force behind a spike in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa, according to &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews AFRICA\u2019S [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14035,23496,830,4981],"class_list":{"0":"post-85629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-drugresistant","8":"tag-extensively","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-rise","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}