Mozambique: Local Tuberculosis (TB) Response

ADPP Mozambique received a grant of US$110,000 for the project “Local TB Response” in 2023. 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 four provinces of Mozambique (Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala and Tete) by a consortium of five organisations experienced with Tuberculosis (TB) and TB/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) led by ADPP Mozambique. It works at community and clinical levels in Mozambique.

Ensuring all people with TB are found, diagnosed, and successfully treated requires a holistic approach. Community education and awareness about seeking health services early, combined with community contact screening and active case finding in high-incidence areas, has resulted in finding missed TB cases. The project aims to increase notification of drug-sensible and drug-resistant TB, ensuring that presumptive TB patients are correctly diagnosed, notified, and initiated on treatment.

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 the functionality of GeneXpert as the first line of TB diagnosis.

In 2023, the Local TB Response project reached 1,7 million people with messages about TB. Out of these, 786,818 people were directly reached through house-to-house and contact investigation visits.