South Africa: Poor Response to TB and HIV

Despite widely acknowledging that in some parts of the country like Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, about 73% of people with HIV also have Tuberculosis, Health Department programmes have failed to screen HIV-positive people for TB and to protect them from getting the bacterial infection.

Under the current national Health Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign, just over seven million people have been tested for HIV. In comparison, less than half - a little over two million - have been screened for Tuberculosis infection.

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