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Tracing the close contacts of people ill with tuberculosis and offering them TB preventive therapy is part of South Africa’s strategy to fight the disease.
Every year, tens of thousands of people who fall ill with tuberculosis in South Africa are not diagnosed. Because of this there has been much focus on testing people earlier rather than waiting for them to show up at clinics when they are already sick. One potential solution, explored in a tria...
Because many people with tuberculosis in SA are never diagnosed or are only diagnosed once their symptoms are severe, digital X-ray technology has been proposed as a way to help solve this problem. A new study shows how effective this screening is on the ground in South Africa’s clinics.
Many people with tuberculosis in South Africa are never diagnosed or are diagnosed only once their symptoms have become quite severe. One solution to diagnosing more people more quickly is the expanded use of new digital X-ray technology. Now, an independent assessment of digital X-ray pilot projects in six districts in South Africa sheds light on how well this intervention works in the real world. Tiyese Jeranji reports.
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