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MSF backs decentralization of tuberculosis health care in Mozambique
8:28 CAT | 21 Mar 2017
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has backed the “decentralization” of tuberculosis health care in Mozambique.
Speaking at a seminar in preparation for the upcoming World Tuberculosis Day on Friday 24 March, Mozambique MSF mission chief Lucas Molfino said that the country needed to create capacity for diagnosis and treatment at health facility level and not concentrate these skills in main hospitals.
“The response [to tuberculosis] must be multi-sectoral, decentralizing health care and mobilizing society to combat the disease,” Molfino said.
Molfino noted that 150,000 cases were diagnosed in Mozambique every year, including 7,000 of the resistant strain.
The MSF mission head pointed to the high incidence of HIV/Aids as one of the causes of tuberculosis resistance in Mozambique, noting that about 11 percent of the Mozambican population is infected.
Source: Lusa
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