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“APOPO's TB detection programs work with over 100 partner clinics in Tanzania, Mozambique and Ethiopia and supports them to find and treat more TB patients. For this, human sputum samples are collected from partner clinics that have already tested them for TB, mostly using sputum smear microscopy. At APOPO's labs the samples are made safe and rapidly rechecked by trained TB detection rats followed by who-endorse confirmation tests. Confirmed results are instantly sent back to the clinics that oversee patient counselling and treatment. APOPO raises partner clinic TB detection rates by 40%. APOPO's tuberculosis detection programs continued to have a significant impact in 2021. APOPO's detected over 1,600 additional TB patients in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. This means that more TB-positive people who have been missed by public clinics are not put on life-saving treatment before they can infect other people and prolong the vicious cycle of TB. APOPO's landmine detection rats, nicknamed HeroRATs, ignore scrap metal and only detect the scent of explosives, making them much faster at finding landmines than humans with metal detectors. HeroRATs are too light to set off landmines, making them a perfect tool to speed up detection. When integrated into conventional mine clearance methods, such vegetation-cutting machines, and manual deminers with metal detectors, the rats are proven to significantly accelerate operations, helping return safe land to vulnerable communities as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. This prevents accidents and quickly returns land to communities for development and sustenance, at a fraction of the cost, leaving funds to address yet more areas. APOPO's Technical Survey Dogs or HeroDOGs complement the rats by more cost efficiently finding the boundaries of a minefield, without the need for vegetation cutting, accelerating APOPO's overall landmine detection progress. In 2021 APOPO continued to conduct mine and explosive ordinance clearance in Cambodia and Angola. The organization cleared over 7 million total M2 of land given back to local communities, helping thousands of people return to their lands and lives free from the threat of mines. In Cambodia, APOPO's HeroRATs and HeroDOGs proved their incredible speed and cost effectiveness. Animal integration with manual demining teams were able to clear land at five times the pace, and less than half the cost of manual deminer only demining teams. At APOPO, we train rats to save lives and our team of innovators make all of this happen at our training and research headquarters in Morogoro, Tanzania. Rising to this challenge, our team employs a multi-pronged approach to address the primary objectives of optimizing performance of our existing scent detection applications and exploring innovative new applications for them, while continually evaluating and assessing animal health and welfare and building local and global scientific capacity. In 2021, APOPO's training teams continued research on two new applications while preparing new rats for landmine and TB detection and monitoring the work of existing rats in the field. Research on the rats ability to detection both illegal wildlife products when masked with other odors was very promising and finaly operational refinement is happening before a pilot at the Port of Dar Es Salaam which will begin in late 2022/ early 2023. APOPO also proved its rats could detect petroleum contamination in soil, a project which may expand to an operational pilot at an oil refinery site outside of Tanzania over the next year. Finally, in 2021, APOPO finished construction on a rubble pile demonstration site and began initial training procedures to use rats as a novel Search and Rescue application. APOPO is currently partnered up with a Turkish Search and Rescue Organization who hopes to deploy the animals if proof of concept is successful.”