An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Change the Knowledge of, Attitudes towards, and Practices around, TB and HIV of Inmates in the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are major
public health issues within South Africa, with TB the leading cause of death in 2015 in the
country (Statistics South Africa, 2017). TB and HIV rates within South African correctional
centres (prisons) are higher than in the general population, a trend seen throughout the world
(Baussano et al. 2010). Interventions that seek to improve the knowledge of, attitudes
towards, and practices around, TB and HIV of inmates in correctional centres include a peer
education programme, an edutainment programme called the 'Kick TB/HIV' programme, and
routine HIV counselling and testing (HCT).