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On the front lines of tuberculosis, healthcare workers have varying degrees of personal protective equipment. Around the world, N95 respirators (masks) are becoming more common amongst staff, but still not nearly ubiquitous. In a XDR-TB ward at a major hospital in Peru, staff are able to go even further, and now wear these N100 respirators to keep safe when working with highly infectious XDR patients.
Nurse Kunkeyani, outside the maternity unit where she works, at Kamuzu Central Hospital.
On the second Tuesday of each month, about 6km beyond the village of Mpemba, where the narrow road hugs a hillside over rocks and streams, there is a clinic. The clinic isn’t a flashy building with bright hallways and fancy equipment, although there is a lot of natural light. There isn’t even a building at all.
Just outside the main room of the Pediatric Ward, two mothers wait with their children.
A woman completes the initial registration steps with her child at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe.