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This as resources had to be redirected from other programmes in order to help fight the pandemic.Now, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says, nationally, the screening ...
The Covid-19 pandemic dealt a blow to other healthcare issues, like the treatment of HIV/Aids and tuberculosis (TB).
In South Africa, for its TB Recovery Plan to work, the focus should be on the strategic use of existing resources, argues Russell Rensburg.
Today is World TB Day. It’s time to take stock of the effectiveness of our tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment programmes and to ask why (after Covid-19 subsides) TB will still be the leading cause of death in South Africa. Today is World TB Day. It’s time to take stock of the effect...
South Africa’s first National TB Prevalence Survey (findings of which were published earlier this year) found that in 2018 the country’s TB burden was substantially higher than previously thought. More importantly, in almost half the detected cases there were minimal or no symptoms of TB, says Professor Keertan Dheda, a general physician, pulmonologist, and a critical care specialist who heads up the Division of Pulmonology at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. “These points collectively suggest that the current case-finding strategy for TB, i.e. a passive case-fi...