60% of patients with TB are missing and have neither been diagnosed nor presented for care and treatment at the health facility in Tanzania. The bad news is that 1 patient with TB can infects 20 people in the community. This is the area that needs to embrace curbing interventions

A commendable approach to optimize mahitaji ya Watanzania yenye lengo la kuimarisha huduma za Afya.

Worth reading it; Meta-narrative review of molecular methods for diagnosis and monitoring of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in adults. Mbelele PM, Mohamed SY, Sauli E, Mpolya EA, Mfinanga SG, Addo KK, Scott KH & Mpagama SG. DOI:10.4103/ijmy.ijmy_135_18 PMID:30531026

It is worth wishing you a prosperous happy new year 2019. It is a new year, new or renewed (research, health) agenda.

It was so nice sharing our preliminary TB-MBLA data we generated from patients treated for MDR-TB at Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital, in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Excellent work going on at Kibongoto Infectious Diseases Hospital. Mega Lab building under construction, looking forward to being part of the science! Infection St Andrews TB Trials @ Uni of St Andrews PanACEA TB Alliance EDCTP Muge Cevik NIMR Mbeya Nyanda E Ntinginya Stellah Mpagama Mbelele PM

Great to Present an E-poster at the 51st Union conference this 24th October 2020.

Dr P Mbelele of Kibongoto Infectious Diseases Hosp has concluded our training day with excellent talk on utility of TB-MBLA in monitoring treaement of drugresistant TB Mbelele PM TB Trials @ Uni of St Andrews Derek Sloan Bariki Mtafya Nyanda E Ntinginya Stellah Mpagama Infection St Andrews Hellen Onyango