MSF AUSTRALIA | PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2022

In Port Moresby, in collaboration with the national tuberculosis program, MSF provided care for patients with tuberculosis including harder to cure drug-resistant forms of the disease at Gerehu hospital, and via home visits for patients who could not access clinics or who required support to adhere to treatment. We offered preventive tuberculosis treatment for close contacts of patients with tuberculosis. We ran community-based case-finding activities to improve early detection and health promotion to provide knowledge about the disease and its treatment, in areas of Port Moresby at higher risk of the disease, such as low-income and densely populated neighbourhoods with inadequate sanitation, and constructed a new clinic for drug-resistant tuberculosis care in Six Mile, in the city’s northeast.