Taking therapeutic apheresis services to patients in South Africa: An eight year review of SANBS mobile therapeutic apheresis service, 2013 to 2020
In Health and Health Care inSouth Africa [1] the 20 year review of health and health care presents the multiple challenges faced by South Africans. Health and poverty is highlighted with 45 % of the population living on approximately US$ 2 per day and 10 million living on less than US$ 1 per day. South Africans have the largest number of people li ving with HIV/AIDS of any country in the world with 2 million of approximately 6 million people living with HIV on HAART, a tuberculosis incidence in 2012 of 950 per 100 000, driven by the HIV epidemic and the most new cases of MDR-TB as well as XDR-TB annually.
Source: Transfusion and Apheresis Science - Category: Hematology Authors: C. Poole, C. Strydom, K. van der Berg, H. Vrielink Source Type: research
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