Developing a district level supportive supervision framework for community health workers through co-production in South Africa
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Community health care workers in South Africa are at increased risk for tuberculosis.
To the Editor: High rates of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa pose a serious threat to health care systems and health care workers (HCWs). Studies in South Africa1 and Ethiopia2 have indicated that HCWs have an increased risk of TB disease compared with the general population. The risk for TB disease is even higher among HCWs co-infected with HIV. S...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06350-2