Mozambique: Local Tuberculosis (TB) Response
ADPP Mozambique received a grant of US$110,000 for the project “Local TB Response” in 2024.
ADPP has been running the Local TB Response project for five years, aiming to reduce the burden of Drug-Sensitive and Drug-Resistant TB in Mozambique.
Following a closeout plan, the project ended activities in all the project provinces and districts on June 30, 2024. Close-out ceremony meetings were conducted in all districts and provinces and attended by project and health facility staff in the presence of local authorities. Over the years, TB Local Response operated in 4 provinces with 50 districts where 13.6 million live.
Some notable milestones include: 6.4 million people have been screened for TB by community activists, and 108,242 people have been diagnosed with TB, started on treatment and supported to complete the 6 or 18 months of treatment, depending on the severity of the TB. A key achievement was a 5% reduction in TB mortality due to the people-to-people approach.
In 2024 alone, the Local TB Response project reached 908,668 people with TB Messages, while 993,106 were screened for TB, and 78,503 presumptive TB cases were identified. The completion of the project is leaving behind communities with improved quality of services offered at the community and health facility levels, as well as the adherence of community members to the services. People in the districts will continue to seek treatment and support for people in their communities who are in treatment for TB and continue collaborating with health services.
Group photo from the closeout ceremony where speeches were presented by the ADPP executive director, the USAID representative, a representative from the Ministry of Health, and the director of the National TB Program. They all recognized the project’s positive impact, the very good collaboration, and the need to keep the same results or better in the next mechanism called FORT.