Given the limited availability of TB services in Sardauna, JHF funded a football tournament that ran for 3 months, during which they actively screened for TB amongst spectators.
Through the FAST approach, all patients and visitors in participating hospitals are screened for TB in both in- and out-patient departments.
The project aims to engage and build capacity of health providers to participate in TB case-detection through screening and linkage to diagnosis.
KIT Royal Tropical Institute hosted a TB Hackathon together with Pakistan’s National TB Control Program and Stop TB Partnership.
This tool consists of a 13-question survey to determine risk of TB and instructs the user to visit a doctor for further TB evaluation.
The primary study objective is to investigate the effectiveness of incorporating TB case finding into an HIV test and treat approach in increasing TB case notification.
The main issues addressed by the project were the high number of unidentified TB cases and the stigmatization of TB amongst communities in Ruashi.
FAST is a novel infection control strategy that aims to reduce the spread of TB through early diagnosis.
ENHANCE is a multi-disciplinary model that aims to strengthen tertiary hospital systems in delivering quality and patient-centered TB services.
TB case finding and care services reached internally displaced persons seeking refuge from Boko Haram Insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria.
