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Hewlett Packard Enterprises Impact Story

Hewlett Packard Enterprise integrates TB screening in eHealth Centers

As their mandate to give back to society, HPE India has installed over 130 eHealth Centers (eHC) under its Corporate Social Responsibility program, across the country where more than 1 million patients have been registered and treated under primary health domain, free of cost.

After signing the Corporate TB Pledge, HPE India aligned its CSR work with the government’s goal to eliminate TB. In July 2019, HPE India signed the Corporate TB Pledge and committed to screen fifty thousand presumptive patients for TB using their existing set up of eHC’s across 9 locations in India.

HPE aims to target the “Missing TB” cases who carry the disease and may go undiagnosed for a longer period. It further aims to refer the diagnosed patients to nearest DOTS Program. This is being achieved with joint cooperation between Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, USAID and The Union.

 Intervention Outline

The mass media campaigns are used to convey behaviour-change messages that aim to impact and influence the public knowledge, attitudes and practices.

Engagement and CSR investment by corporates can disseminate information on TB widely to vast audiences through the use of media, such as television, radio, local media channels, traditional media, newspapers, Internet, books, posters and billboards. The corporate can adopt a district or state and implement campaigns around prominent dates like world TB day or the company’s foundation day etc

 

Expected Impact

  1. Increase in knowledge, attitudes, awareness and opinions about TB and health-seeking behaviour for TB
  2. Decrease in stigma
  3. Increase in uptake of government services for TB service
  4. Corporate brand positioning

Expected Investment

Capital Cost – INR 10 – 50 lakhs

Support from CTP Secretariat

  • Project designing
  • Providing IEC material to use in the campaign – audio/video clippings
  • Facilitating collaboration with the government program including approvals wherever necessary
  • Coordinating with technical experts for their quotes etc
  • Training volunteers for the campaign

We live in an incredible time—where climate change, population, food, healthcare, and security all present urgent and interrelated challenges for our society. I believe technology can play an important role in addressing these rapidly-evolving global needs. And that is why we at HPE have dedicated ourselves to a clear, simple, and extremely important cause—developing and using technology to advance the way people live and work. I wanted to thank USAID, The Union and The Embassy to forming a platform to direct our resources to eradicate this critical disease India faces and plans to eliminate for year 2025.

Mr. Ambrish Bakaya, Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE

Intervention

As their mandate to give back to society, HPE India has installed over 130 eHealth Centers (eHC) under its Corporate Social Responsibility program, across the country where more than 1 million patients have been registered and treated under primary health domain, free of cost.

After signing the Corporate TB Pledge, HPE India aligned its CSR work with the government’s goal to eliminate TB. In July 2019, HPE India signed the Corporate TB Pledge and committed to screen fifty thousand presumptive patients for TB using their existing set up of eHC’s across 9 locations in India.

HPE aims to target the “Missing TB” cases who carry the disease and may go undiagnosed for a longer period. It further aims to refer the diagnosed patients to nearest DOTS Program. This is being achieved with joint cooperation between Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, USAID and The Union.

HPE India has signed MOU with Amalgamated Plantations (APPL), a Tata Group Conglomerate based out in Kolkata (WB). This project is screening patients for TB in and around the Tea Gardens in Assam. HPE has also partnered with SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences, leading hospital in Bareilly (UP) which has TB referral from 9 nearby locations under NTEP, for screening of patients in the city and outer limits of City of Bareilly, UP

Impact

HPE India has screened 41,785 people till now and is actively working to achieve its target of 50,000 presumptive patients. The positive TB cases are being connected with the national TB program. MDR diagnosis machine has also been installed in Bareilly for identifying Drug resistant TB cases.

Key Lessons

Integrating TB in existing health care program and improving access to diagnostic facilities contributes to early diagnosis and also reduces delay in initiating treatment.

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