Ethiopia has officially launched the programmatic rollout of the 6-month Bedaquiline, Pretomanid, Linezolid, and Moxifloxacin (BPaLM) regimen for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant/multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The national launching event took place in Bishoftu with the presence of officials from the Ministry of Health, Regional State Health Bureau TB program managers, key […]
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 World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy emphasizes the importance of early tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and universal access to drug-susceptibility testing (DST). Despite these efforts, significant diagnostic gaps persist globally. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people contracted TB, with 7.5 million newly diagnosed cases, but only 4.0 million […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the second edition of its consolidated guidelines on TPT. The 21 recommendations contained in the second edition of the guidelines cover critical steps in programmatic management of TPT. The main changes from the first edition of the guidelines include a new, strong recommendation […]
Overview The document consolidates two TPPs for TB diagnostics to be carried out at the peripheral level: a newly updated TPP for a rapid test for TB detection and a TPP released in 2021 on next-generation DST for M. tuberculosis. The updated and consolidated TPPs introduces, for the first time, definitions […]
