CAPE TOWN - The United States National Institutes of Health has committed to assisting researchers in South Africa to find a faster tuberculosis test, which will help in the fight against the diseas
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The global clinical project will compare the performance of the tests for adults, children, and people living with HIV and type-2 diabetes. It requires a patient's sputum sample to be sent to a central laboratory and results are only available several days later. “People have to stand in queues all day more often at the clinic and have to lose income on those days.”
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