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In a crucial meeting held today with the Global Fund Country Team, the National TB Program, showcased the significant strides made in combating tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya, thanks to robust support from the Global Fund. Led by Dr. Immaculate Kathure, Head of the Program, the meeting focused on reviewing successes from the past three years […]
Mariam Baraka’s son Mahir was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by Clinical officer Pharnice at Miritini CDF. Mariam had been struggling with her son’s health for a long time, going from hospital to hospital with no improvement in his condition. The doctors would diagnose him with pneumonia and treat him, but the treatment never worked. […]
Turkana County, one of the top 10 counties in Kenya with high prevalence rates of tuberculosis (TB), has launched a TB screening outreach program in secondary schools. The initiative aims to increase TB case finding, prevention, and care among school-going children in the county. The 2015-2016 TB prevalence survey conducted by the Kenyan Ministry of […]
When 29 year old , Olal Ledon, a father of three and a teacher by professional started having cough that was often accompanied by chills in September 2022, he associated the symptoms to pneumonia. “I thought my routine of riding the motorcycle to and from school early morning and late in the evening when it […]
Irene Mirika, 40, a single mother of three and manual laborer, is a former TB patient and now a champion. She hails from Igembe South, Meru County. Her condition began with a persistent cough and later, a rapid loss of weight. The initial diagnosis at a private hospital was malaria. To add to her quandaries, […]
Nancy from Mshomoroni narrates how her two and a half-year-old son battled TB. The visits she made to numerous clinics bore no fruit. She carried her son’s pain. His neck was swollen. He had rashes, was coughing constantly, and had lost his appetite completely. “I had taken him to another facility where an x-ray had […]
The background of Tuberculosis in Kenya is of some interest, particularly to the writer. Its history is not very clear, but earlier medical workers did show that infection with TB has been prevalent along the Kenya coastline due to early contact with Europeans, Indians and Arab traders. It took some time for tuberculosis to spread […]
At Wagai Dispensary, a facility popularly known by the local people as Nyagondo, a meeting is held every Monday morning to review TB cases at the facility targeting to establish the best intervention measures per case. Healthcare workers are encouraged to submit any concerns they have about a particular case. At one particular time, a […]
The Division of National Tuberculosis Leprosy and Lung Disease Program (DNTLD-P) in collaboration with other stakeholders has started the development of the 2023/24-2027/28 National Strategic Plan. This is the first stakeholder workshop to synthesise data and evidence in order to identify gaps and come up with priority challenges in TB control. The workshop which is […]
The introducing New Tools Project (iNTP) is a collaboration between the Stop TB Partnership and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to roll out a package of the latest innovations in diagnostics, treatments and digital health technologies. It is aimed to strengthen TB care in high burden countries. The Project supports countries in reaching 2022 […]
