By Reuters Staff
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will ramp up home delivery of medicines to patients and expand the use of chest X-rays for tuberculosis (TB) screening in communities as it looks to contain new infections since the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted health services, the health minister said on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers chat at a temporary ward set up during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, January 19, 2021. Phill Magakoe/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Designated by the World Health Organization as a high burden country, South Africa registers around 60,000 deaths from TB each year, making it the country’s leading infectious disease killer closely intertwined with one of the world’s highest rates of HIV/Aids.