Southern Africa: MDR-TB Migrants being dumped off at borders without referrals to care

Some migrant workers in southern Africa who have been diagnosed with MDR-TB are being deposited at the border of their home country without treatment or referral to care, according to reports at the World Lung Health Conference held in Paris from October 17th-20th. In some cases, it is the migrant’s employer that is sending ill patients back to their home country, usually a mining company .