Feasibility of using teleradiology to improve tuberculosis screening and case management in a district hospital in Malawi.
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Médecins Sans Frontières, PO Box 219, Thyolo, Malawi. msfocb-blantyre-opr@brussels.msf.orgIssue Date
2012-09-01
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Malawi has one of the world's highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (10.6%), and southern Malawi, where Thyolo district is located, bears the highest burden in the country (14.5%). Tuberculosis, common among HIV-infected people, requires radiologic diagnosis, yet Malawi has no radiologists in public service. This hinders rapid and accurate diagnosis and increases morbidity and mortality.PubMed ID
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1564-0604ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.2471/BLT.11.099473
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