Publication date:
Nov 2019
Lessons learnt
Successes
- Time to commencement of treatment reduced from 42 hours to less than 12 hours among DS-TB patients.
- Integration of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model.
- Expanding access to U-LAM has improved time to effective treatment.
- Surveillance of TB among HCWs improved; hospitals have active surveillance programme.
- Monitoring of IPC activities improved; facilities reporting on IPC indicators.
Key challenges
- Predominance of X-Ray testing vs GeneXpert testing.
- Infrastructural problem for separation.
- Lack of dedicated data capturers, which results in late recording and reporting.