Keertan Dheda Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Keertan Dheda The absolute reduction in mortality was small at 4 percent, but with 300,000 patients with HIV dying from TB in Africa every year, implementing this low-cost, rapid, bedside test could potentially save thousands of lives annually, the reduction in mortality is likely to be because urine testing, in conjunction with routine testing, resulted in a greater proportion of patients starting tuberculosis treatment early. Keertan Dheda healthcare For patients with advanced HIV, it's hard to diagnose what infection they have and it's particularly hard to diagnose TB. Keertan Dheda healthcare What we showed in the study is that if you use this new test and a guided treatment based on this test you can actually save lives. Keertan Dheda healthcare
