Moses Bateganya

Moses Bateganya replied to "PEP in context of complex emergency: congo experience" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Ziad I am interested in knowing about the model and in which setting it was used in Uganda. Thanks Moses

Moses Bateganya replied to "Is N95 safe for SARS or avian influenza?" in the TB Infection Control community.

I am asking a more operational issue. Who should wear the N95 masks in resource limited settings where all staff cannot have access to them?. All staff working in TB clinics? Only where MDR TB is suspected? only for staff who are living with HIV? How are programs is resource limited settings going about this? Moses Bateganya

Moses Bateganya replied to "Is N95 safe for SARS or avian influenza?" in the TB Infection Control community.

Thanks you for sharing but wonder if the surgical mask is not really a placebo? Or infact more harmful than useful. Given the cost of N95 masks I know many settings do not have them. Moses Bateganya Department of Global Health University of Washington

Moses Bateganya replied to "Drink sharing" in the TB Infection Control community.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Tuberculosis_awareness_still_lacking_in_rural_areas_82080.shtml Talking about straws and risk of infection! I found this article in one of Uganda's daily that highlights some of the gaps in TB awareness. I thought I would share it even though its not a scientific paper but a journalists description of villagers who have given up on TB Control! Moses Bateganya

Moses Bateganya replied to "Integrating TB services into Primary Health Care" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Colleagues I just wanted to add that an important step in the process of integration related to Training health care workers to be competent in managing and control of TB which in many countries has been running as a vertical program. I have been wondering if there are minimum set of competencies for TB and TBHIV that have been developed to guide intergration of TB clinical care and control into training curricular from preservice ...