Mozambique: Local Tuberculosis (TB) Response
ADPP Mozambique received a grant of USD 60,000 for the project “Local TB Response” in 2022. The grant complements funding from US Agency for International Development (USAID) as the main partner.
Mozambique Local TB Response is a five-year project which started in 2019 and ends in September 2024. The project is implemented in 4 provinces of Mozambique (Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala and Tete) by a consortium of five organizations experienced with Tuberculosis (TB) and TB/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) lead by ADPP Mozambique and works at the community and at clinical levels in Mozambique.
The project aims to increase notification of drug susceptible and Drug-Resistant TB, ensuring that presumptive TB patients are correctly diagnosed, notified, and initiated on treatment.
Treatment adherence support is provided by community activists through DOTS to improve the treatment success rates both for Drug Susceptible and Drug Resistant TB; thus, contributing to the WHO End TB targets of 95% reduction in TB deaths, 90% reduction in incidence, and zero catastrophic costs by 2030. Mozambique has a case identification rate of 88%.
To achieve this, the Local TB Response project has invested in capacity building of health professionals and community activists whilst improving the diagnostic network through sputum sample transportation and ensuring functionality of GeneXpert as the first line of TB diagnosis.
In 2022, the Local TB Response project reached 1.7 million people with messages through house to house and contact investigation visits. Out of these efforts, 27,000 TB cases were diagnosed and notified.
Furthermore, ADPP Mozambique participated in a panel discussion on TB case identification and drug adherence support at AIDS 2022, the 24th International AIDS Conference in Montreal. The importance of integrating TB and HIV services to the people at community level was highlighted during the panel discussion.
My name is Ricardo Juma Assane born in Nacuda circle, Administrative Post of Bajone, on 02 January 1972. I am now 50 years old and suffering from Tuberculosis, which has become multi-resistant tuberculosis. It has been 5 months since I started taking Multi Drug Resistant-TB medication. I feel better. I can ride a bike and I’ve changed my behavior completely, and I stopped drinking alcoholic beverages. My control results to date are very satisfactory. My family and all my contacts have already been screened.
I take this opportunity to thank the project for giving me the privilege of Psycho Social Support.