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TB – Tuberculosis

LAMB works with and for the Government in the delivery of its TB treatment and prevention programs.  Funding is through Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in a project of BRAC.

The largest part of LAMB’s activity is out in the communities.  It consists of

  • awareness raising of the symptoms and effects of TB
  • identification of possible TB cases because of their symptoms, both for patients attending community clinics and during Village Health Volunteer visits to homes
  • sputum testing to confirm the presence or absence of TB.  Sputum samples are most commonly taken at community clinics.  All samples are tested at the hospital laboratory
  • treatment is always initiated through a hospital visit and examination by a doctor.  Normally unless a case is severe, treatment by medicine is successful.  There is a 94% rate of success for treatment by medicine.

LAMB Hospital has an 8-bed TB ward for in-patient care of the more serious cases.

 

 
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