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TB kills 65 in Kavango

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Namibian health directorate has reported that 65 people in the Kavango region died as a result of tuberculosis between April 1999 and March 2000, news reports said. The directorate said a total of 1,002 others received treatment to fight the disease.

    Presenting the statistics at the TB Day commemoration held at the Rundu Open Market Primary Health Care Centre, Co-ordinator for the Kavango region, Dorothy Kambinda, said there had been 155 positive new cases among men compared to 143 female cases.

    She confirmed that between April 1999 to March this year 285 TB patients went the full length of the treatment and 95 repeated the treatment. Eleven did not complete the full course.

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