An evaluation report released today by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charts progress towards decentralizing services for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal's King Cetshwayo District (KCD), in line with the country's 2011 DR-TB decentralization policy.
An evaluation report released today by Doctors Without Borders charts progress towards decentralizing services for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal's King Cetshwayo District , in line with the country's 2011 DR-TB decentralization policy.
"The Department of Health has made enormous strides in implementing the decentralization policy, yet the most vulnerable DR-TB patients in the district are still having to travel several hours to the province's central TB hospital in Durban to get treatment and care, at a cost that is often catastrophic,"
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