TB Epidemiological review measures the extent to which the TB surveillance measures the TB disease burden and mortality and analyse trend to ascertain the TB epidemiological profile and the interventions to address TB disease. Dr.

District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) has tremendously improved recording and reporting of TB data in Tanzania. The added WHO dashboards improve the way we analysis and useTB data at the health facility level. Dr.

Uganda has recently conducted the comprehensive review of the National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP) to understand the progress of the implementation of the Revised National Strategic Plan (NSP) of 2015/16 to 2019/20. EPIMAT Consulting through its Managing Partner Dr.

EPIMAT Consulting keeps on growing and work with other countries in Africa, and now it is Uganda. Our Managing Partner, Dr. Francis Mhimbira worked with World Health Organization Global TB Program (WHO GTB) in Geneva Switzerland, WHO AFRO and Uganda National TB and Leprosy Programme to conduct the TB Epidemiological Assessment.

This was an exciting opportunity to work with National TB and Leprosy Programme and KNCV Tanzania in collaboration with consultants from KNCV Netherlands. We collected routinely collected data from NTLP, implementing partners and other government agencies. We used an Excel-based tool that was developed in 2017 by Dr. Rein Houben, M. Farid, the Indonesian NTP, and KNCV Indonesia to estimate the sub-national (regional and district) TB estimates.