Eastern Cape launches door-to-door drive to close HIV treatment gap
The Eastern Cape Department of Health has launched 2 door-to-door campaigns to encourage HIV positive patients to receive treatment.
This follows statistics that have shown that about 148 000 people living with HIV, who know their status, are not on treatment.
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Provincial Health spokesperson, Camagwini Mavovana, says the recently launched campaigns focus on mass mobilisations, where healthcare workers visit communities in their homes and public spaces.
“Our biggest intervention has been the R1.1m close the art gap campaign. As a province, we need to find over 148 000 people who know they are HIV positive, but are not on treatment. We launched the campaign in October and already have mass mobilization across the province, door-to-door, village-to-village and workplace-to-workplace because the treatment gap is our single biggest risk. At the same time, we are delivering the R5m for the Tuberculosis test campaign,” says Mayoyana.
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