That is according to Dr Zameer Brey, who was speaking on Tuesday morning at a webinar hosted by the SA National Aids Council . Brey heads the TB programme in SA for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“There is a concern about how Covid-19 has hit SA, but we must also pause and look at the number of innovations and then think in terms of HIV and tuberculosis,” he said.The compressed time frame of Covid-19 has ensured decisions are made under pressure instead of lagging.Second, South African society has become used to changes that could stand it in good stead as the country tackles HIV and TB.“In terms of TB, for a long time we struggled with the acceptance of masks.
Brey said: “This patient-centric approach came into the mainframe with Covid-19 because we saw we could no longer rely on the system to pull in patients.” Instead, innovation ensued and saw services and care being delivered to people where they are instead of them having to travel to facilities. “This could open up the space for these models to perpetuate long after Covid-19 has left us,” Brey said, adding that “delivering services at scale and in a fast-paced manner” has also resulted from the regulations being more agile in the face of the pandemic.
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