Inspired by Tuberculosis Research Advisory Council (TRAC) and hosted by the Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), the 1st meeting of Southern and East African Regional Network for Tuberculosis (SEARN-TB) was held in Addis Ababa. The network aims to strengthen coordination and harmonization of TB control approaches with a particular focus […]
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 […]
TRAC Annual conference where researchers, academia, policy makers, program implementers, local and international stakeholders, among others meet, held for the 17th time in the historic town of Gondar. The annual event is focused on sharing research findings that has been done across the nation on TB Priority topics. MoH, TRAC, […]
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 […]
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) includes several human- and animal-adapted pathogens. It is thought to have originated in East Africa from a recombinogenic Mycobacterium canettii-like ancestral pool. Here, we describe the discovery of a clinical tuberculosis strain isolated in Ethiopia that shares archetypal phenotypic and genomic features of M. canettii […]
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The urgency of researchers’ findings was reflected by the launch of the World Health Organisation’s roadmap to prevent and treat TB in children and adolescents. The roadmap, announced at the Union World Conference for Lung health, outlines an ambitious five-year plan with 10 key actions to improve the prevention, treatment, […]
