From 2013 to 2015, with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (through TB Reach), the World Bank (through University Research South Africa), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ICAP at Columbia University forged a new public-private partnership between Lesotho’s Ministry of Health and The Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA), the primary agency that recruits men in Lesotho to work in South Africa’s mines. The partnership leveraged three high-volume TEBA offices to reach miners and ex-miners—populations with extraordinarily high HIV and tuberculosis (TB) risk—and their families with much-needed, “one-stop” health services.
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Leveraging Labor Recruitment Offices in Lesotho as Innovative Points of Care to Reach At-Risk Miners with TB/HIV Services