Zambia: South TB Treatment Rate Increases

THE increase in the Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) uptake among patients on Tuberculosis (TB) treatment, coupled with more diagnostic centres in Southern Province, has increased the cure rates to 89.3 per cent in 2014 from 87.8 per cent in 2012.

Provincial medical officer Jelita Chinyonga said TB patients were being tested for HIV/AIDS hence an increase in the TB programmes from 71 per cent in 2013 to 87.5 per cent in 2014.

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