Feasibility of community-based HIV self-screening in South Africa: a demonstration project.

Background: HIV diagnosis is a critical step in linking HIV-infected individuals to care and treatment and linking HIV-uninfected persons to prevention services. However, the uptake of HIV testing remains low in many countries. HIV self-screening (HIVSS) is acceptable to adults, but there is limited data on HIVSS feasibility in community programmes.

Estimating the magnitude of pulmonary tuberculosis patients missed by primary health care clinics in South Africa.

Setting: The present study was conducted at 20 randomly selected primary health clinics across Buffalo City Metropolitan Health District, a high TB burden district in South Africa.

Objective: To estimate the proportion of TB patients missed by primary health clinics.

Design: We enrolled 1255 TB-symptomatic individuals exiting primary health clinics between March and December 2015.

Household water treatment uptake during a public health response to a large typhoid fever outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Locally manufactured sodium hypochlorite (chlorine) solution has been sold in Zimbabwe since 2010. During October 1, 2011-April 30, 2012, 4,181 suspected and 52 confirmed cases of typhoid fever were identified in Harare. In response to this outbreak, chlorine tablets were distributed.