MSF TB Centre Makeni Hospital - Koroma Family Story

The Koroma family talking to MSF outreach staff outside their house in Bumbuna, Tonkolili district.

The entire family was diagnosed with Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) and are all currently on treatment.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB152729

Date taken / Date Recorded 31/01/2023 9:37 AM

Country Sierra Leone

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Nargiz Koshoibekova

Copyright Nargiz Koshoibekova/MSF

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Additional Information / Shotlist MSF has been supporting the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Makeni Regional hospital with the diagnosis and treatment of DR-TB since 2019. The MSF TB centre screens and diagnoses patients with DR-TB. Patients were placed on the 9-month or the 18-month regimens.

In October 2022, MSF together with National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program (NLTCP) started introducing the BPaLM regimens, a WHO-recommended, six-month long all-oral treatment for DR-TB. With the new regimen, patients are taking less medicines, have fewer side effects and are treated within a much shorter time.