Feasibility of using teleradiology to improve tuberculosis screening and case management in a district hospital in Malawi

• Main Authors: Rebecca Marie Coulborn (Author), Isabella Panunzi (Author), Saskia Spijker (Author), William E Brant (Author), Laura Triviño Duran (Author), Cara S Kosack (Author), Michael Mitchell Murowa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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PROBLEM: 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, ye...