Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge in South Africa, particularly in remote villages where access to healthcare is limited. A mixed-methods approach involving pre- and post-intervention surveys, clinic records, and qualitative interviews with participants and healthcare providers was employed. Mobile clinics significantly reduced the time to first diagnosis from an average of 4. 5 weeks to 2. 7 weeks (95% CI: -2. 1, -0. 1). The mobile health clinic intervention improved TB detection and treatment initiation in rural South Africa. Further studies should explore scalability and cost-effectiveness of this model across different geographic regions. mobile clinics, tuberculosis screening, remote villages, public health, rapid diagnosis Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.
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