Botswana acquires hi-tech TB detection tool

SOWA TOWN: Botswana has acquired a new diagnostic tool to improve TB detection. Known as Xpert, the tool can detect TB in hours unlike current machines in Botswana that takes days – even weeks.

Anikie Mathoma from the TB/HIV Division at Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Botswana said that the new cutting edge diagnostic tool is being studied at clinics in the country.

It is hoped that the tool will help more people to be treated faster than before.

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