APOPO News

So, why the new look? Our current branding has been going strong for almost two decades. Celebrating our 20th birthday last year provided a great opportunity to give a fresh feel to the whole APOPO brand. Don’t get us wrong, we loved our old logo and know many feel the same. That said, we believe the […]

In 2019 APOPO U.S. transitioned leadership of its U.S. Board from Mari Kuraishi, the founder of Global Giving, to Kristen Davis the former Head of IT at the International New York Times. The whole APOPO family thanks Mari for her instrumental leadership in starting up and making APOPO U.S. a successful independent 501 c3 organization.

MKUTA receives award for Community Leadership and Mobilization from the Stop TB Partnership. On the 23rd of October 2018, the Stop TB Partnership organized an event to present the 2018 Kochon Prize in The Hague, The Netherlands. The 2018 Kochon Prize was awarded to the Minister of Health of South Africa Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi and to

By Robert Burny | Country Program Manager, APOPO TB Mozambique APOPO adopts GeneXpert technology for confirmation tests Last year, Mozambican health authorities started a equipping clinics with WHO endorsed diagnostic technology that in order to find more TB-positive patients at clinics. Called a GeneXpert machine, it involves molecular TB tests to detect TB in sputum samples

By Dr. Miriam Schneider | Senior Researcher Introducing the HeroRATS to alternative training  Improving the accuracy of scent detection is one of the most important aims for APOPO’s TB-detection rats. APOPO’s Research & Development (R&D) team recently embarked on the development of an alternative procedure, using an operant conditioning chamber to train the HeroRATs. APOPO researches

By Christophe Cox | CEO APOPO Joy Milne visits the APOPO training center in Tanzania. “Joy Milne is better known as The woman who can smell Parkinson’s. In December, I saw Joy’s media appearances and learned about her collaboration with Edinburgh and Manchester Universities. At the 2018 People’s Postcode Lottery annual Charity Gala in Edinburgh, I met her

By Dr. Lena Fiebig | APOPO Head of TB March 24 is World TB day. This annual event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the tuberculosis-causing bacteria, and it aims to raise global awareness of this devastating disease. World TB day, proposed at the 100th anniversary of Koch’s

Its official, APOPO has been ranked as Top-Rated Non-Profit on GreatNonProfits for the second year in a row. Rankings are based on reviews from supporters around the world and more than 137 people have ranked APOPO as a five star worthy organisation. Below are a selection of reviews posted to GreatNonProfits about APOPO. The APOPO

Last month APOPO were excited to announce the appointment of the organisations new Head of Training and Behavioural Research. Dr. Cynthia Fast holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Psychology specialising in Learning and Behaviour and Behavioural Neuroscience from UCLA. Cindy has more than ten years of experience conducting behavioural research with a variety of species including