Project Details

Community awareness on TB and TB screening initiative

Ambuja Cement Foundation

  
  • Location

    Across States

  • Project Duration

    2016 - ongoing

  • Description field
    • GOALS & OBJECTIVES Awareness generation and TB screening at the community level through “Sakhi”-Village Health Volunteers. To carry out TB screening in the selected vulnerable communities. To increase awareness about TB in the high-risk communities to promote community engagement & understanding of the disease. Establish linkages for TB screening by specimen collection transportation system and educating patients on treatment adherence & nutritional counselling. Connecting suspected patients to government facilities. • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS In Ambujanagar, Darlaghat and Chandrapur location village-based TB forums have been formed and additional interventions aligned with support of local Panchayat bodies. Their work in Ambujanagar has been consecutively awarded and recognized by the District TB Office Gir, Somnath for the last three years. From September 2020 till Sep 2023- around 48000 people were screened, 7187 tested and 338 and new TB patients were identified.