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During the recent Novartis Foundation meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, field clinicians called upon their research colleagues to look beyond pure science and examine the larger social picture
surrounding tuberculosis. Nulda Beyers of Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital, for example, noted that TB is comparatively non-existent in the white population, while other populations-- plagued with unemployment, malnutrition, and
poor housing conditions-- have seen TB deaths reach 3,000 per 100,000 people.
"If I had to put my money on science or social uplift, there is no doubt that social uplift would have the bigger impact [on TB]," Beyers added.
Editor's Note: from Lancet
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