{"id":228927,"date":"2026-03-29T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-125000-living-with-tuberculosis-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:11:19","slug":"mozambique-over-125000-living-with-tuberculosis-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-125000-living-with-tuberculosis-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Over 125,000 Living With Tuberculosis in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Maputo \u2014 Over 125,000 people are living with tuberculosis in Mozambique, with a notable increase in cases in the central and southern provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">According to Benedita Jos\u00e9, head of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, interviewed by Radio Mo\u00e7ambique, as part of the commemorations of World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, Inhambane, Gaza, and Maputo are the provinces most affected by the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Combating tuberculosis remains a priority for the sector. Around 125,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603260086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Over 125,000 people are living with tuberculosis in Mozambique, with a notable increase in cases in the central and southern provinces. According to Benedita Jos\u00e9, head of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, interviewed by Radio Mo\u00e7ambique, as part of the commemorations of World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, Inhambane, Gaza, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7741,4704,682,257,254,19855],"class_list":["post-228927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-living","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tuberculosis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}