TBAC attends SA’s TB Indaba, joins calls for unity
The country needs to use its community assets and focus needs to be allocated to the 28 high burden TB districts.
The country needs to use its community assets and focus needs to be allocated to the 28 high burden TB districts.
A new report released today, on Universal Health Coverage Day, by Rural Health Advocacy Project reveals that the health system disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic compromised the gains made in many programmes in this sector. It also highlighted various inequities in the current structure of the health system
The intention of the recovery plan was to be implemented from May 2021. Yet the plan
has been beleaguered with delays for more than two years since its inception, with no
clarity.
The challenge with people not testing is the nature of the disease and how it has been spread. Mostly affecting South Africa’s poorest citizens, TB is airborne and spreads in overcrowded, poorly ventilated areas.
The National Department of Health has embarked on an ambitious National TB Recovery Plan. Where should it’s focus be?
When Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his budget speech in February, TB got a special mention for the first time in years.