Department of Health releases South Africa’s first TB prevalence survey

South Africa's first National TB prevalance survey 2018 was released on Friday, 5 February, by the National Department of Health and its partners. The survey data was collected from August 2017 to July 2019 in over 110 clusters in all nine provinces.

For more details about the survey, click here and here.

Source: Health24

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