Fight Against Pediatric Tuberculosis: CaP-TB Project presents a 4-year balance sheet

Between October 2017 to September 30, 2021 a fully funded project by the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has carried out diagnosis and treatment of children in the Centre, Litoral and West regions of Cameroon. Today, the project dubbed CaP-TB presented its result obtained that has greatly helped in catalysing Pediatric innovations and quelling down infact morbidity and mortality.

The actors of the project in the centre region this Thursday, November 25 presented a balance sheet and activities that have been extended to 19 district hospitals, integrated health units, mission hospitals in their quest to fight tuberculosis, improve on the diagnosis and ensure accessibility to indexed persons

The health practitioners 2-day during the gathering that marks an end to the project based their discussions on “Catalysing Pediatric TB innovations” and adapting treatment to children with tuberculosis.

The objectives of the CaP-TB was to sought to create a conducive atmosphere for the diagnosis of Tuberculosis Pediatric, acquire the treatment and best detections methods, ameliorate on the diagnosis, generate evidence and assure effective transition and durability at the national level.

Taking into consideration the extensive field work and results obtained the programme coordinator in the centre region noted that no integration of TB screening, lack of training and healthcare workers, lack of registers and poor documentations, material and equipment amongst many factors have been made the fight a rather difficult one

Comparatively, more children were diagnosed with TB by clinical methods (61by as opposed to the bacteriological approach (39%), and 41% of the infants diagnosed using Chest X-ray.

Presiding over the closing ceremony of the four year funded project to fight pediatric tuberculosis in the centre region, the Delegate of Public Health emphasized on the need adapted treatments in health units while revealing that 327 cases have been put in treatment, 155542 out of 209073 children screened scaling up to 98% of the project

Statistics also proved that 2939 infants were declared presumable to TB, 2809 tested with Gene-Xpert as part of the Cap-TB project.

Three hundred children were diagnosed with TB covering a detection rate of 10% of the project

The project is funded by the Elisabeth Glaser Foundation in partnership with the Unite Aid and Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health.

Benly Anchunda

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