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Implementing Active Surveillance for Tuberculosis: A Quality Improvement Project
This study evaluates how CHWs can implement active TB surveillance in South Africa, a country burdened by severe TB and MDR-TB epidemics.
South Africa is a high tuberculosis (TB)-burden country with the worst multidrug-resistant TB (MDRTB) epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) in high TB-burden settings are to institute processes for identifying patients with active TB and to improve social support.
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