Capacity Building Health Workers to Find and Treat TB Cases: Silpher Okore’s Story
57 year old Silpher Okore, the TB nursing officer at Siaya County Referral Hospital has been a practicing nurse for the last 20 years. This has been mostly in the…
Personal Stories
Finding Missing TB Cases through Community Outreach: Victor Odhiambo’s Story
While fishing in Lake Victoria one day, Victor Odhiambo began experiencing chest pain and a persistent cough. He associated this to the cold weather at the lake and went on…
Pregnant with HIV, What Next? Jacinta’s Story
“When the nurse at the Antenatal Care (ANC) clinic informed me, I needed to get tested for HIV, I was not worried because I was healthy and fat, I had…
Finding Missing TB Cases through Community TB Screening Outreaches: Jared Mbiuki’s Story
60-year-old Jared Mbiuki was on his way home from his job in a slaughter house in Magutuni Market, Maara Sub County, Tharaka Nithi County, when he got attracted to a…
Empowering Tunza franchise facilities to find tuberculosis missing cases
Mr Gitonga Ndii, outside his Kathathani medical centre located at Kathathani Market, Chuka Sub County, Tharaka Nithi County. The clinic is part of the Tunza family health network, a franchise of…
My battle with extensively drug resistant TB; Fatuma Abdalla
Fatuma Abdalla, a recovering extensively drug resistant TB patient sorting out chaff from rice outside her daughter’s house in Likoni, Mombasa County. Fatuma Abdalla, 70 years old, was a…
Strengthening TB services in Meru County through the private sector
Irambu Mwaki, owner, AfyaMax medical clinic, Gakoromone Market, Meru County .AfyaMax is one of the Tunza franchise private facilities network in Kenya being supported by Tuberculosis Accelerated Response and Care…
Treatment Support for TB Patients: Hamadi Ali’s Story
Hamadi Ali, a TB survivor points at a writing on their living room wall written by his wife to remind him when to take his TB medication. He credits his…