In Tanzania, Apopo’s trained rats screen thousands for tuberculosis at a fraction of standard costs, often detecting TB before clinical tests, while Mkuta’s volunteers ensure patients receive treatment and support in their communities.
Through antenatal care, skilled deliveries, and community health workers, Medical Teams International has achieved four years of zero maternal deaths in Tanzanian refugee camps, offering a model for other countries.
Making a health care island of HIV control has held back efforts to catch and treat related illnesses, advocates say. That’s about to change.
A chance meeting with a teenager who was not at school may have changed his life. An excerpt from Danielle Butin’s heartfelt story of the Afya Foundation.
‘In Senegal, people with HIV are subject to harsh discrimination. Mothers are hiding. They don’t want to be seen entering this pavilion. They are afraid to go to the pharmacy. They refuse to be followed up in their neighbourhood. As a result, many children living with the disease are not being detected.’