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For years, 47-year-old Malebohang Ntšene carried a burden few people could see. Each morning, she woke up thinking about her son. Each night, she went to sleep worrying about him.
The first people to arrive at the outreach are often elderly villagers, mothers carrying children on their backs and men returning from the fields. One by one they make their way beneath the outreach tents where an entire healthcare system has been brought directly into their community.
For many, this is the first opportunity to receive comprehensive tuberculosis screening without travelling long distances to a health facility. What begins as a simple registration soon becomes a carefully coordinated journey through one of the most comprehensive community TB programmes in Lesotho.
When a person is diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), the focus naturally shifts to treatment. Yet behind every diagnosis is a family, a household, and a community that may also be at risk. For the TB Elimination Project, finding one patient is not the finish line. It is the starting point for a race against time to find others who may have been exposed and connect them to care.
Established as a major investment in the sustainable management and quality assurance of hospital machinery, the Center reflects Partners In Health (PIH) Lesotho’s growing capacity to maintain life-saving equipment in-house.
Partners In Health (PIH) Lesotho intensifies efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB), mobile clinics have become a critical part of reaching people where they live, especially in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
For Janki Moneni, a 62-year-old man, the past months became a relentless fight against a devastating illness. What began with troubling symptoms slowly turned into a life-threatening medical crisis that required intensive care, specialized treatment, and the dedication of a committed medical team.
Partners In Health (PIH) Lesotho is changing the story through its TB Elimination Project, a bold, community-centered approach that takes screening, diagnosis, and care directly to the people most at risk.
Partners In Health (PIH) Lesotho reached a historic milestone in the fight against HIV: all seven of its Rural Initiative (RI) sites achieved 0% vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child. A cohort of 76 HIV-exposed infants (HEI) tested negative, marking a significant victory for maternal and child health in Lesotho and offering hope for an HIV-free generation.
A 47-year-old Semethe Moshesha travels 3-4 hours on horseback to access mental health services.