Lifestyle diseases are rampant in rural population in KZN, say health researchers

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A health-screening programme in the uMkhanyakude district, northern KwaZulu-Natal, has found a high burden of undiagnosed or poorly controlled non-communicable diseases, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health.

study health workers screened 17,118 people aged 15 years and older, via mobile camps within one kilometre of each participant's home in the uMkhanyakude district.

While the HIV cases were, for the most part, well diagnosed and treated, some demographic groups, including men in their 20s and 30s, still had high rates of undiagnosed and untreated HIV. Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of death in SA, and the high rates of undiagnosed and asymptomatic tuberculosis that health workers found is a concern.

One-third of the people were living with HIV, but this was mostly well diagnosed and treated. Women bore a particularly high burden of HIV, high blood pressure and diabetes.

 

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