Table 1.

Standardised patient case descriptions

Standardised patient case	Opening statement	Relevant history	Ideal TB management strategy	Ideal HIV management strategy
Case 1: typical symptoms	‘I have a cough and am feeling hot, and it’s not getting better’	Cough duration 2 weeks, experiencing loss of weight/appetite and night sweats, known HIV+, not on ART	Offered/sent for any TB test or referred to public sector for any reason	Offered/sent for tests to assess CD4 cell count and/or viral load or referred to public sector for any reason
Case 2: confirmed TB	‘I have a cough that is not getting better. I have been to a clinic back home and they gave me some tablets and took my spit’	Carrying GeneXpert pos/Rif inconclusive laboratory report. Cough duration 3 weeks, experiencing loss of weight/appetite and night sweats, HIV− at last test 1 year ago	Offered/sent for any TB test or referred to public sector for any reason	Offered/sent for rapid or ELISA test for HIV or referred to public sector for any reason
Case 3: previous TB	‘I am suffering from a bad cough. About a year ago I had got tablets in the hospital, and it had got better. But now again I’m having this cough’	Cough duration 2 weeks, experiencing loss of weight/appetite and night sweats, diagnosed and treated with TB last year at which time took 3–4 months TB treatment, known HIV+, not on ART	Offered/sent for any TB test or referred to public sector for any reason	Offered/sent for tests to assess CD4 cell count and/or viral load or referred to public sector for any reason

ART, antiretroviral therapy; TB, tuberculosis.