Capacity to Test for TB in North Uganda

“We must always advise our people to go for TB testing the way we talk about HIV,” recommended a Greater Northern Uganda respondent of CPAR Uganda Ltd’s qualitative investigation into tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. Click here to download and read the 5-page PDF of CPAR Uganda’s fifth TB research findings briefing which covers: The need…

“We must always advise our people to go for TB testing the way we talk about HIV,” recommended a Greater Northern Uganda respondent of CPAR Uganda Ltd’s qualitative investigation into tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda.

Click here to download and read the 5-page PDF of CPAR Uganda’s fifth TB research findings briefing which covers:

The need to test for TB
Availability of GeneXpert machines
Suitability of four modules GeneXpert machines
Functioning of GeneXpert machines.

PHOTO: Mr. Alex B. Okello, CPAR Uganda Finance Committee Chair; Hon. Betty Aol Ocan, Woman Member of Parliament for Gulu District and now Leader of Opposition in the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda; and Prof. Christopher Garimoi Orach, CPAR Uganda Board Chair during the high level workshops on TB that CPAR conducted as part of its qualitative investigation in to TB in Uganda.

Entebbe, Uganda