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Exploring the barriers and facilitators of access to care as experienced by caregivers of children who were admitted to a specialised tuberculosis hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major cause of ill health and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide. Furthermore, young children, especially those under five years old and infants, are at ...
The decentralised drug-resistant TB programme in South Africa: From policy to implementation
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
South Africa is one of the high burden countries for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) globally. A
policy supporting decentralised DR-TB treatment provision was introduced in 2011 but to date
implementation has been ...
Estimating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for major morbidity and mortality globally. Gains made to end TB in the decade 2010 to 2019 have been at a pace which is predicted to be insufficient to reach global 2035 TB targets. A new ...
Evaluating the implementation and uptake of the Universal Tuberculosis sputum testing by geneXpert ultra in HIV infected pregnant women in city health PHC facilities, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Background: Tuberculosis contributed 33.2% of all non-pregnancy related infections (NPRI) causes of South African maternal mortality, in 2017. The disease contributed 22 of the 46 maternal deaths due to NPRI, in the Western ...