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Small Change, Big Results: Boosting TB Screening in Ethiopia

January 23, 2020
{Photo Credit: Warren Zelman}Photo Credit: Warren Zelman

By Berhanemeskal Assefa Woldemariam, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for HealthAs a country with high rates of tuberculosis (TB), Ethiopia is working to expand services and improve TB case finding.

Undetectable = Untransmittable: MSH Nigeria Commemorates World AIDS Day 2019

December 12, 2019
Adolescents and a few MSH staff pose for the camera after the Adolescent and Young People Program and Symposium held in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo credit: Aor Ikyaabo/MSH

In commemoration of World Aids Day 2019, MSH, through the USAID Care and Treatment for Sustained Support (CaTSS) Project, joined in a week of activities hosted by Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS and the Federal Ministry of Health. In collaboration with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the government launched the “Undetectable equals Untransmittable” (U=U) campaign on November 25—a strategic campaign to help achieve zero new infections and reduce stigma for Nigerians living with HIV.

Mayowa's story: Defying the odds and living positively with HIV

December 12, 2019
Omena Eghaghara, Supply Chain Management Specialist for the CaTSS project, visits with Mayowa. Photo credit: Aor Ikyaabo/MSH

By Omena Mimi EghagharaOmena Mimi Eghaghara is a Supply Chain Management Specialist for the USAID Care and Treatment for Sustained Support (CaTSS) Project, based in Kwara State, Nigeria. One September day in 2018, while providing supportive supervision to one of the CaTSS-supported facilities in Kwara state, I made the first of many calls to Mayowa, a 21-year-old medical student living with HIV. Mayowa was exhausted and losing hope.

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