Water for Peace
With increasing water interruptions in a number of municipalities in South Africa, the risk of being infected of water-borne diseases is increasing. While the water in our pipes is safe to drink. There are situations where diseases can creep into the system, making it temporarily unsafe for drinking purposes, says Professor Craig Sheridan, director of Wits:H2O in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at Wits University. Realising that, unlike in rural areas, city-dwellers are actually quite uninformed about how to safely treat water, as they have been relying on the provision of clean safe water from municipalities for decades, Sheridan and the Wits H2O team has decided to create a number of videos on how to safely treat water to prevent diseases such as cholera from spreading.
WHAT IS IT? The National TB Programme’s priorities for 2022 remain focussed on regaining ground lost in the fight against TB during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a number of tools to be implemented in the coming year to help reduce TB disease and deaths and help South Africa to get back on track towards global targets for TB elimination by 2035.
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