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Assessment of health-care seeking behaviour: The case of co-infection of TB and HIV/AIDS in Temeke, Tanzania
Tanzania is number 14 of 22 countries classified by WHO as "high-burden countries" of TB, and like many other sub-Saharan countries, the TB epidemic is closely linked to the epidemic of HIV. Temeke district in Dar-Es-Salaam has carried out innovative approaches to reach WHO targets of case detection and cure rates in their TB-programme. They have also initiated well integrated TB and HIV approaches. Even if the health system offers both TB-medicines and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) free of charge, however, many TB patients diagnosed as HIV positive do not come for CD4-counting and collection of ART. In order to understand where the obstacles are for people in obtaining what is considered the best treatment, LHL and the counterparts in Temeke decided to initiate an external, anthropological assessment of the issue.