{"id":230622,"date":"2026-04-18T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cases-of-tuberculosis-treatment-abandonment-fall-in-huila\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:02:50","slug":"angola-cases-of-tuberculosis-treatment-abandonment-fall-in-huila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cases-of-tuberculosis-treatment-abandonment-fall-in-huila\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Cases of Tuberculosis Treatment Abandonment Fall in Huila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Lubango \u2014 The number of patients who abandoned tuberculosis treatment in Huila province fell from 376 in the first quarter of 2025 to 304 in the same period this year, reported the director of the Lubango Sanatorium Hospital, Louren\u00e7o Kotele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking to ANGOP, the official considered the evolution &#8220;encouraging&#8221; although the levels still remain high, considering that the abandonment rate is around 30 percent, an indicator considered &#8220;worrying&#8221; since it remains above the recommended levels, set&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170309.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubango \u2014 The number of patients who abandoned tuberculosis treatment in Huila province fell from 376 in the first quarter of 2025 to 304 in the same period this year, reported the director of the Lubango Sanatorium Hospital, Louren\u00e7o Kotele. Speaking to ANGOP, the official considered the evolution &#8220;encouraging&#8221; although the levels still remain high, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230623,"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":[4262],"tags":[10223,258,256,3941,4263,10498,9140,13073,257,254,12416,19855],"class_list":["post-230622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-abandonment","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-cases","tag-fall","tag-huila","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment","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\/230622","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=230622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}