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MTaPS Program Supports Kenya to Combat COVID-19

April 22, 2020
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The USAID MTaPS Program is supporting Kenya in its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic by implementing a national strategy in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and county governments (see US Embassy in Kenya announcement).

Finding Uganda’s missing TB cases: Improved mentorship and supportive supervision could be the answer

April 21, 2020
{Photo credit: MSH staff}A district TB and leprosy supervisor conducts supportive supervision.Photo credit: MSH staff

According to the National population based TB prevalence survey, each year, 87,000 Ugandans develop tuberculosis (TB), a preventable and curable disease. Strides have been made to notify more cases. In 2019, the National TB and Leprosy program notified 61,372 cases, leading to a 76% (61,372/80,412) treatment success rate. This was a huge improvement, with a 53% treatment success rate reported three years earlier.Many patients go untreated due to poor health-seeking behavior and limited access to health services.

Supporting Pregnant Women to Adopt Preventive Therapy for Malaria in Nigeria

April 21, 2020
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It’s early morning, but Rebecca Owolabi, a nursing officer at the Isokun Maternity Center in Ilesha in Osun State, Nigeria, is already providing group counseling on malaria prevention in pregnancy to women visiting the facility for antenatal care. She counsels them on the importance of sleeping under an insecticide treated bednet and seeking treatment at the first sign of malaria. Also, as preventive therapy, she hands two tablets of sulphadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) to the women, who then swallow them with water.

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