ETHIOPIA
Since 2009 GHC has saved lives in Ethiopia by providing access to care for Drug Resistant-TB
We work with local health workers, national hospitals, and the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and its regional bureaus to provide access to state-of-the-art drug-resistant TB care. In parallel, we focus on food supplementation and social support to help ill patients complete treatment.
PROJECTS
Treating children for drug-resistant TB and the Zahara Children’s Center
Ayetu, age 10 with drug resistant-TB of the lymph nodes after one week of therapy feeling much better without a fever with her father at St Peter’s Hospital in Addis Ababa.
Launching a South-to-South partnership: Initiating Care for Drug-Resistant TB in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian and Cambodian drug resistant-TB teams celebrating at the end of the Cambodian training at the Angkor Wat Temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, January 2009.
Healing the world one life at a time
Drug-resistant TB: Treatment, Training, and Care
33 year old Gizachew, one of GHC’s first patients in Gondar, had been living in a closet (left panel) in his house to protect his wife and children from acquiring drug resistant-TB and had not kissed his children for 3 years. He had high fever and extensive TB in both lungs when we found him. In the photo to the right, taken a year and half later, he was back at work and feeling well.