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Ethiopia hosting the first meeting of the Southern and Eastern African Regional TB Network (SEARN-TB)

Ethiopia hosting the first meeting of the Southern and Eastern African Regional TB Network (SEARN-TB)

The first network meeting of the Southern and Eastern African Regional Network for TB (SEARN-TB) is well underway in Addis Ababa. NTP Managers, TB Coordinators, and other communicable disease managers joined from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland, Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Lesotho, Seychelles, Comoros, Mozambique, Eswatini, Botswana, Malawi, and Madagascar […]

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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

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

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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