Stopping the stigma: Masks are now a part of our everyday lives. Here’s how that can help in the fight against TB. WorldTBDay | Bhekisisa_MG
is a form of the disease for which commonly used TB drugs don’t work, making it difficult – and expensive – to treat.of MDR TB cases. So a simple, cheap intervention such as wearing masks can be a real boon in a country with an underresourced public health-care system. And Covid has shown that it’s possible to get most people to buy into a behaviour change fairly quickly.The Covid pandemic has shown us how important testing is.
Muluken Melese is a senior technical advisor for TB, HIV and Aids with Management Sciences for Health, a nonprofit global health organisation, and a medical doctor and public health professional with more than three decades of clinical, project management and research experience Andre Zagorski is a senior principal technical advisor with Management Sciences for Health and has over 25 years of global TB, infectious diseases and essential medicines project management experience in Europe, Asia and Africa
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