NHEA 2022: Two Lucky Private Organisations To Cart Away TB Awards
BY CHIOMA UMEHA Anadach Group in partnership with the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award (NHEA) have announced two awards for picks by lucky private organisations that have supported their Tuberculosis (TB) LON 3 project in Nigeria at NHEA 2022. A statement signed by Moses Braimah Director, Marketing, Communication and Strategy revealed that the two private organisations would be specially recognised for supporting their TB LON 3 project in Nigeria. The two awards are titled, the Most Outstanding Private Sector Advocacy Support for TB of the Year and Honorable TB Advocacy and Impact Organisation of the Year. According to the WHO Global TB report, an estimated 440,000 people in Nigeria have tuberculosis (TB) each year. Though curable and preventable, it accounts for an estimated 1.4 million deaths globally in 2019. A major challenge in the TB response in Nigeria is low TB case detection as only one in four people with TB are diagnosed and poor coverage of TB screening, diagnostic