Zimbabwe: TB Cases On Decline

31 March 2014

The number of tuberculosis-related illnesses in Zimbabwe has significantly dropped from 60 000 in 2003 to about 35 000 last year, a health official has said. Deputy director of AIDS and TB in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Charles Sandy said this in Harare last week. The decline is attributed to Zimbabwe's adoption of a new tool known as "gene expert" to diagnose drug resistant TB (DR-TB).

Dr Sandy said the gene expert machine makes a diagnosis of TB within two hours, and Government and its partners had secured 58 of the machines.

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