Arduous and lengthy treatment of tuberculosis

Papua New Guinea

We are working to improve access to screening and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in Papua New Guinea.

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.

MSF teams are currently responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in PNG.

Read more on our COVID-19 response in PNG
In 2019

15,900

15,9

outpatient consultations

1,350

1,35

people started on treatment for TB, including 56 for MDR-TB

1992

1992

Year MSF first worked in the country
 
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