What is behind SA’s higher TB numbers? | Citypress

A World Health Organization report published last week showed more people are falling ill with tuberculosis in South Africa than previously thought, but also that the country’s treatment success rate for dangerous drug-resistant forms of the disease have improved.

The burden of disease for TB is staggering. One only has to compare this to the roughly 20 000 Covid-19-related deaths in South Africa“Personally, I am surprised with those numbers. When unique identifiers are ineffective, it is possible that you may have difficulties on settling on the correct number. But I can’t deny the fact that we have a high burden of TB,” he says.“The burden of disease for TB is staggering.

She adds that the country has “completed the much-anticipated National TB Prevalence Survey, but, to date, these crucially important findings have not been made public” and it “is unclear if these results informed the higher TB estimates”. According to the report, for multi-drug resistant TB , South Africa’s treatment success rate is 60% while the global average is 57%. MDR-TB is TB that is resistant to at least two of the most common medicines used to treat TB.

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