Having diabetes or being older than 50 are far deadlier than HIV or TB in a person who contracts Covid-19, new data has revealed.
The data, just as across the globe, showed that “men and people who are older are more likely to die from Covid-19 than others”.
But now, the new data has shown that people with TB are actually at a smaller increased risk of death than the other comorbidities. He said HIV management in South Africa over the past few years had been a “success story” which had seen the disease dropping from first place to sixth place on the list of what is killing South Africans, but added that it was “very dispiriting” to see how the Covid-19 pandemic had proved a major setback.case reports from colleagues on the frontline saying that HIV patients are not picking up their prescriptions now and that is a catastrophe for the HIV response programme,” said Venter.
“We need to anticipate huge problems in the next six to nine months of deaths from HIV and TB,” he said.
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