Busisiwe Beko, from Khayelitsha in Cape Town, was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis while she was pregnant. She remembers it as a very difficult period in her life.
Beko says that during this time she did not receive any counselling, which would have helped prepare her for what lay ahead. globally fell ill with TB, though it is not known how many of them were pregnant at the time. Indeed, little is known about the true burden of maternal TB.Hendrik Simon Schaaf, distinguished professor and senior specialist in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University, explains that maternal TB is when someone becomes ill with TB“It is quite difficult to diagnose TB during pregnancy,” he says.
Idah Mokhele, an epidemiologist and senior researcher at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office , stresses that the perinatal period is an important opportunity to screen, diagnose and treat those at high risk for TB. Mokhele says TB may be transmitted from mother to child in utero, intrapartum and postpartum.
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