Connecting care: Community-based model transforming TB and HIV services
Every interaction with HIV services should be viewed as an opportunity for TB screening.
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Every interaction with HIV services should be viewed as an opportunity for TB screening.
When a person with presumptive TB is identified, then frontline workers of Humana People to People India get an X-Ray and TB test done. If found positive, the treatment is initiated without delay at the nearest public TB clinic.
Globally, Uganda is one of 30 countries with high rates of TB/HIV co-infection.
Logoba HC3 is currently treating 30 HIV/AIDS patients from refugee settlement camps including others from neighboring villages of Kajio-Keji county of South Sudan.
UPC wants the government to include free of charge camps of all TB related examinations and treatment as a supplement to heath outlets.
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