South Africa Health News API

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            "description": "SA is about to roll out lenacapavir, the world's most potent HIV prevention injection. Here's what needs to go right for it to actually work.",
            "content": "In less than a month, South Africa will start rolling out the most potent HIV prevention medication the world has seen.\nBut that alone doesn’t guarantee that HIV-negative people who need this twice-a-year injection — called lenacapavir (LEN) — will u... [12550 chars]",
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            "description": "AMSTERDAM/GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries worldwide sought to prevent the further spread of the hantavirus on Thursday, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone who had close contact with them since. Three people – a Dutch couple and a German national – died in the outbreak on the MV […]",
            "content": "AMSTERDAM/GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries worldwide sought to prevent the further spread of the hantavirus on Thursday, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone who had close cont... [4066 chars]",
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            "title": "Four monitored in Western Cape for hantavirus exposure",
            "description": "The Health Department said the four people were among the passengers who travelled from St Helena Island to Cape Town on 25 April.",
            "content": "Four people in the Western Cape are being monitored after being identified through contact tracing following possible hantavirus exposure linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship.\nThe cruise ship, travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde, carried 147 peop... [1151 chars]",
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