Winners of the TBPPM Photo Contest 2022
Countries around the world have seen their health infrastructure taking a massive blow in the past 2 years due to COVID-19. The Global TB report 2022 has reported an increase for the first time in many years in the number of people who fell ill with Tuberculosis (TB). Along with the challenges to health, the world has been facing numerous other challenges such as the floods in Pakistan, famine in Afghanistan and Sub-saharan Africa, war between Ukraine and Russia, and so on. These crises adversely affect public health outcomes too.
However, despite all these challenges, there are health workers, practitioners and implementers who have silently continued their battles against their respective diseases, caring for the people around them, preventing and treating illnesses. The private providers especially have stepped up to support the public health system in these difficult times.
The TBPPM Learning Network recently concluded the TBPPM Photo contest 2022. There were a total of 40 submissions in 2 different categories: High Resolution (17) and Low resolution (23). A panel of judges has selected the following 6 images as the winners of the contest in each of the categories. We congratulate all the winners of the contest.
We are delighted with the enthusiasm shown by the participants in the contest and are inspired by their phenomenal efforts toward ending TB. Their photos truly showcase the tremendous work on TB care and prevention happening around the world, often in harsh circumstances.
Celebrating the frontline TB PPM work with these fantastic images, here are the top 6 submissions:
Balochistan is declared calamity hit with extreme flooding and it lost communication with the rest of the country. The internally displaced flood-affected resident who has lost his entire saving and family can be seen along with his belongings in the severely flooded area with a high fever. The person was screened and was diagnosed as TB positive and cared for by Dopasi Foundation.
Two small-scale miners read the TB flyers given to them as one of the strategies used by the USAID Afya Shirikishi Project in Tanzania in dissemination of TB education to hard-to-reach areas. In Tanzania, the mining communities are stated as one of the communities with limited community TB services. Read more on the work of SHDEPHA+KAHAMA
Lab Technician of Mercy Corps’ PPM TB Program is orienting two female Afghan refugees about the sputum collection and testing process, in the Mobile TB Van, at a Medical Health Camp in Balochistan. Mercy Corps coordinates TB PPM programs around the country connecting many providers, lady health workers, pharmacies etc. Read more on resilience shown in Mercy Corps' work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Active TB Case Finding Among Nomadic Communities using Mini X-Ray Machine organized by Sufabel Community Development Initiative in Nigeria
In an open field near the makeshift camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, individuals who were forcibly displaced from Myanmar, gather around a Mobile Van equipped with the latest digital X-ray and rapid molecular technology, to get their chest examined or sputum analyzed for confirmation of Tuberculosis. Read more about the TB work BRAC is coordinating in Bangladesh.
A field officer performing contact screening of household members of a registered TB patient in Umerkot, Pakistan. Read more on resilience shown in Mercy Corps' work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.