15 Jul Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): The Search for the Missing People with TB Intensifies across the Country
The Minister of Health and DRC’s First Lady join forces towards finding the missing people with TB.
Update z from the Field
14 Jul Contact Tracing of Index Drug-Resistant TB Patients Under Way – Thanks to Efforts by the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria
The Institute of Human Virology is placing its efforts on contact tracing of index patients of drug-resistant TB. In the first quarter of 2018, 1'476 contacts of index DR-TB patients were traced.
01 Jul Bangladesh: BRAC screens more than 120,000 people in 5 months using modern diagnostic tool
BRAC is implementing the Public-Private Mix (PPM) approach to ensure enhanced partner coordination and to encourage collaboration of efforts to find more of the country’s missing people with TB.
15 Jul Pakistan: Indus Hospital – a trailblazer for initiating chest X-ray screening at large tertiary public and private hospitals
Implementing chest X-ray and the CAD4TB software in large tertiary public and private hospitals has helped to almost double new TB case notifications in Karachi.