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JOHANNESBURG: A new tuberculosis treatment that slashes costs and the pill burden for patients will be rolled out in five high-incidence countries this year, international medical research body the Aurum Institute said on Wednesday. TB — a respiratory disease that is preventable and treatable yet kills more than 1.4 million people every year — is chronically underfunded, with diagnosis and …

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