Key Achievements and Success Stories
- Success Story: Access to Tuberculosis Treatment and Quality Care Saves Children's Lives in Haiti
Five-year-old Nahomie is one of 23 children receiving medicines to cure tuberculosis (TB) at the TB ward for children at Grace Children's Hospital in Delmas, a poor neighborhood just outside of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
- Success Story: Tuberculosis Program [PDF, 82KB]
Read country success stories and additional information about USAID's TB program
- Success Story: A “Spot On” Treatment for Tuberculosis
Because of a USAID-sponsored TB treatment program called DOTS Spots, “direct observation” treatment in some areas has increased from 20 to 98 percent. The patients who received medication from DOTS Spots have fully completed the treatment regime and are finally cured of TB.
- Telling Our Story: Bringing Hope to Tuberculosis Patients
Seventeen-year-old Wasil is one of 76,000 Afghans with new, active cases of tuberculosis (TB) each year. Without treatment half of those infected will succumb to the disease.
- Telling Our Story: Fighting Tuberculosis, Renewing Hope
Sixteen-year-old Sabiha, one of at least 250,000 Pakistanis who develop Tuberculosis every year, benefits from a public USAID-supported treatment program in Pakistan. Since 2003, USAID has contributed nearly $5 million toward Pakistan’s National Tuberculosis Control Program.
- Key Achievements in Tuberculosis
As reported in Child Survival and Health Programs Fund Progress Reports to Congress
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