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.
