Since 2007 APOPO has supported national clinics and helped increase detection rates by 40%. Operations began in Morogoro at the training and research center and in 2016 a new testing facility was opened in Dar es Salaam to get to the heart of TB response.
The TB detection research program in Tanzania was launched in mid-2007 in partnership with four government clinics. It has since expanded to 80 collaborating clinics in Dar es Salaam city, Dodoma city, Coast and Morogoro regions, and a new APOPO testing facility opened in 2016 in Dar es Salaam. APOPO collects sputum samples that have already been tested by microscopy in the partner clinic labs and retests them using TB-detection rats and WHO-endorsed confirmation tests, resulting in a detection rate increase of about 40%.