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Jan Van Charante from Suriname suggests keeping in mind the occupational risks on getting infected with TB, especially for EMS workers, nurses working in quarantaine departments and people who have a relation with work in prisons. He adds to take particular care of being included in a screening program and states that “prevention stays better than cure, so protect yourself if your health is at risk.” Read the full post.
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Adama Jallow is the manager of the national TB control program of the Gambia and explains that on World TB Day, a series of activities were organised both at central and regional level.The secretary of state for health made a statement on national radio and television and spoke on the importance of the theme: I AM STOPPING TB. Incollaboration with the WHO office, the national TB control programme was able to conduct series of pannel discussion on national and local radio stations on the importance of this day. The medical research council provided t-shirts for the cerebrations that were held at the upper river region of the Gambia. Read the full post.
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Chief Austin Arinze Obiefuna, the President of the Afro Global Alliance and National Coordinator of the Stop TB Ghana Partnership, explains that Ghana has taken up this leadership role in TB control starting from the planning, management and implementation of TB control and prevention activities. On World TB Day a series of activities took place to mobilize the health workers, civil societies, NGOs, media and the government to take action as groups and individuals in the fight against TB. In Ghana the traditional leaders are playing a leadership role in disease control and prevention because they have been sensitized to understand the advantages of having a TB free society. They nominate volunteers within their community who are trained by the Stop TB Ghana Partnership and the Ghana Health Service personnel to serve as community treatment supporters to implement DOTS, detect more cases, do voluntary counseling and testing, refer suspected cases and also work as disease neighborhood watch. This role will help regulate defaulter cases which are the incubators of multi-drug resistance. Read the full post.
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Sammi Fredenburg in Snohomish (north of Seattle, Washington, USA) is aregional ONE Volunteer Coordinator and RESULTS Partner. She shares the story of Dr. Claudia Lacson and the project that her husband, Romel Lacson, started after Claudia lost her life to TB. The project is called the TB PhotoVoice in which cameras are given to people affected by TB and they share their reflections to this preventable and curable disease. Read the full post.
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Oliver Eze, shares information about the situation with TB in Nigeria, where he lives. He explains that the primary modus operandi applied in the eradication of tuberculosis within his locality and the nation at large, is the creation of substantial awareness about the disease using all forms of the media in propagating their course. Their awareness campaign gives certain basic information about the disease itself, prevalent symptoms, preventive measures and alternative cure. Free health care service is being delivered to people who show symptoms or are diagnosed as having the disease. Read the full post.