Uganda to expand successful Kampala scheme in battle against tuberculosis

Dr. Kasauli Mahmoud Zinda felt he was failing his community each time a probable TB patient walked out of his clinic without being tested, in all likelihood to spread the disease. So when representatives from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease approached him in 2011 to join a new initiative that would equip his clinic, Pillars Medical Center, to test for and treat TB, “it looked like it was a dream,” he said.