Here I looked at how Ubuntu as African-centric approach can help mitigate this - through shifting the focus to communal wellbeing instead of individual protection, using universal infection control measures instead of targeted ones, and thinking about how health workers communicate about IPC. 5/

We look at whether proficiency at TB IPC helped with Covid-19 IPC and how conceptualisations of what mask-wearing means changed. 😷 4/

It was a slow 14 year process. The organisation’s leader was actively involved in making sense of ☝️why TB IPC was important and ☝️what effective IPC entails. There were critical events, like a health worker falling ill with TB and opportunities to link TB IPC with other processes (eg. triage) 3/