Over the years APOPO has worked on improving its training techniques and evaluating its landmine detection programs, carrying out numerous studies to examine the performance of the detection rats technology. In 2003, APOPO won the World Bank Development Marketplace Global Competition, which provided funding to start research into another application of detection rats technology: Tuberculosis Detection.
This allowed APOPO to establish the TB training and research facility at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania where APOPO still has its headquarters.
