Ntombasekhaya Mlandu

Ntombasekhaya Mlandu PN, CNP, BScN, MPH is the clinical manager for the Bring BPaL2Me trial and the clinical nurse practitioner in East London, South Africa. She most recently worked as the operational manager of a large community health center in the Eastern Cape, South Africa and the owner/operator of a nurse-led primary care clinic. She was the first nurse to initiate drug-resistant TB treatment in South Africa, paving the way for the expansion of DR-TB treatment to primary care clinics. Ms. Mlandu represents nursing perspectives in the decentralisation of programmatic management of drug resistant TB (PMDT) on the WHO AFRO Green Light Committee for Drug-Resistant TB.