Weaknesses in South Africa's public health system have been cited as being among the reasons tuberculosis has increased four-fold in the last 15 years.

Cape Town — In a country where deaths from pregnancy and childbirth have been rising - more than four-fold in a decade, according to reports - not a single maternal death was recorded at a maternal obstetric unit in Khayelitsha, a poor settlement outside Cape Town, from April 2011 to May this year.

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