UK parliamentarians visit Ethiopia-LSTM TB REACH Project in Awassa, Ethiopia
Wed, 06 March 2013, 12:23PM In the week of 18 th February, a cross-party UK parliamentary delegation went to Ethiopia to explore how the country is dealing with key health issues. Sir Tony Cunningham MP, Heather Wheeler MP, Kevin Barron MP, Baroness Hooper and Lord Hussain visited the TB REACH project in Awassa, Southern Ethiopia to understand how it works and its impact. Funded by the WHO’s Stop TB Partnership, the objective of the TB REACH project is to promote early and increased case detection of tuberculosis (TB) cases and ensure their timely treatment, while maintaining high cure rates within TB programmes at national level. TB REACH focuses on using ground-breaking approaches and activities in reaching people who are poor, vulnerable or have limited access to TB services. This collaborative implementation project was conceived by Dr. Mohammed Yassin (Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and honorary research fellow at LSTM) who designed it with Dr. Daniel