In Papua New Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières continues to focus on improving access to prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death in the country.
In collaboration with the national TB programme, our team has been scaling up the capacities for screening, diagnosis, treatment initiation and follow-up in Port Moresby’s Gerehu hospital. Mobile teams work in the community to improve patient adherence to treatment.
In Gulf province, our TB programme supports two health centres as well as Kerema general hospital.