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Mother and child waiting for TB testing in the drug-resistant TB ward at Makeni hospital, Bombali district, Sierra Leone, December 2023. Photo credit: Ammar Obeidat/MSF
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19 July 2024

Sierra Leone: New approach radically improves diagnosis and treatment of children with TB

Diagnosing TB in young children is particularly challenging. MSF has been working with Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health since 2020 to improve the diagnosis and treatment of TB in children, and, in 2022, started implementing the use of new tools to help diagnose TB.

“By using the new tools available, by bringing treatment closer to patients, and also by providing nutritional support in the DOT sites to children who are undernourished, we have been able to enrol and successfully treat significantly more patients,” says MSF medical team leader Jobin Joseph.

Sudanese refugees in Aboutengue camp, Eastern Chad. 2024. Access to effective diagnostics is severely limited in many of the remote and rural places, lacking in infrastructure, where MSF works. Photo credit: Laora Vigourt
Blog |
28 June 2024

Bridging the access gap to microbiology diagnostics is a critical part of the global response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Dr Jane Cunningham is a Diagnostics Advisor with MSF's Access Campaign. In this blog she takes a closer look at the important role of diagnostics in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and why we are advocating for improving microbiology diagnostic capacities in the places they are most needed, to be included as a priority in the plans for a global response to AMR, currently under discussion by UN member states.