TB programme stakeholder views on lessons from the COVID-19 response in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global COVID-19 pandemic has reversed many of the hard-won gains made in TB programmes and the associated reduction in the number of TB deaths, case notifications and incidence over the last three decades. Modelling estimates show that the impact will be lasting. There are global calls to recover the shortfalls along the TB care cascade that have resulted from COVID-19, with the recognition that the COVID-19 response holds lessons to inform more robust and comprehensive TB programmes and services.

Objective

To explore lessons from response measures to the COVID-19 pandemic in two high TB burden South African provinces.

Design

This was an exploratory qualitative study. We conducted interviews with TB programme stakeholders (managers and facility-level st

SUBMITTER: Myburgh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10446663 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature