A national priority in South Africa is to address the difficulties associated with HIV AIDS, and associated infections, which is prevalent amongst a large percentage of our population. South Africa has a population of over 58.5 million people of which 7.7 million people are living with HIV. It is imperative that all healthcare professionals can manage these patients thus allowing increased and easy access within the proximity of the communities that need the service the most.

South Africa is a high burden DR-TB country. In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated that there are 558,000 incident cases of Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis (RR-TB) and MDR-TB in the world. Of these, only 139,114 received treatment under programmatic conditions. During the same period, South Africa initiated 10,722 cases of RR-TB and MDR-TB which is approximately 10 % of the global cohort for that year.