Care & Support

TB Alert India care and support activities play a crucial role in providing high quality comprehensive support to persons diagnosed with TB. This includes complete medication, nutrition and emotional/ treatment adherence counseling. These services help patients to complete their full course of treatment and leads to cure and avoidance of drug resistant forms of TB.
major activities under Care and support include
  • Enlisting support from all stakeholders irrespective of the distance between them and the patient.
  • Establishing linkages for patients with social-support structures.
  • Ensuring that patients get access to all the critical components of the Continuum of Care (access to health facilities & testing, to diagnosis, support for treatment adherence and stable care).
  • Providing differentiated care and counselling, and understanding the needs of the patients to enable them to complete treatment.
  • Building the capacities of the family and primary care givers to address the needs patients for successful treatment outcomes.