{"id":230259,"date":"2026-04-13T02:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-undiagnosed-tb-pose-challenge-for-south-africa-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:45:54","slug":"southern-africa-undiagnosed-tb-pose-challenge-for-south-africa-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-undiagnosed-tb-pose-challenge-for-south-africa-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Undiagnosed TB Pose Challenge for South Africa, Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Africa is making progress in reducing tuberculosis (TB). But experts say missed cases and drug-resistant infections are complicating the fight, particularly in South Africa and Mozambique.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Southern Africa remains one of the regions hardest hit by\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/tuberculosis-deadly-infectious-disease\/a-72275982\" rel=\"noopener\">tuberculosis (TB)<\/a>, with countries such as\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/south-africa\/t-46830055\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/mozambique\/t-68124161\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a>\u00a0still bearing\u00a0a significant share of the global disease burden. Experts say that while some progress has been made, much more needs to be done to reduce infections and deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604020079.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>Africa is making progress in reducing tuberculosis (TB). But experts say missed cases and drug-resistant infections are complicating the fight, particularly in South Africa and Mozambique. Southern Africa remains one of the regions hardest hit by\u00a0tuberculosis (TB), with countries such as\u00a0South Africa\u00a0and\u00a0Mozambique\u00a0still bearing\u00a0a significant share of the global disease burden. Experts say that while some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00420119:10c3318118c38fbe73da9898fc32f478:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7485,4704,682,257,11160,5069,254,7153,43911],"class_list":["post-230259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenge","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-pose","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-undiagnosed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00420119:10c3318118c38fbe73da9898fc32f478:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230259","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=230259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}