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Living the promise: A young cardiothoracic surgeon committed to save the lives of Drug Resistance TB patients with complication

Living the promise: A young cardiothoracic surgeon committed to save the lives of Drug Resistance TB patients with complication

By /April 1, 2023 /0 comments /Articles

Tuberculosis (TB) including its drug resistant form is a curable disease with medical therapy. Recent advances in the treatment of TB including drug resistant form of the disease has heralded the availability of highly efficacious and safe anti-TB medicines for the treatment of TB and drug-resistant TB globally. For some […]

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Travelling between frontlines to get TB medicines for patients

Travelling between frontlines to get TB medicines for patients

By /March 17, 2023 /0 comments /Articles

Personal experience of a TB and DR TB nurse from Woldia, during the 2021/22 Northern Ethiopia War.  Thank you for inviting me to share my story, my name is Mitku Mekonen, currently I am working at Woldia Hospital as TB and HIV coordinator and focal person of the TIC (Treatment […]

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The health officer who has to prepare lunch box to treat her TB patients

The health officer who has to prepare lunch box to treat her TB patients

By /March 6, 2023 /0 comments /Articles

S/r Hana Abera is TB/HIV team leader at Akaki Health Center in Addis Ababa. A team of experts from the national TBL program have visited the health center in April 2022 while they were conducting TBL catch up campaign to find missed TB cases. Akaki is one of the 240 […]

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