CAP DR-TB (Community Action for Prevention of DR-TB)

Thematic Area: TB Champion Engagement for DR-TB Services

This initiative is being supported by Stop TB Partnership through CFCS- Round 12 extension based on the results accomplished through IAM4TB project. The key objective of this initiative is to strengthen community-led action for the prevention, detection and management of drug-resistance tuberculosis (DR-TB) by engaging the project trained TB Champions. This initiative has been started from Nov 2025, and being implemented in urban poor communities of Hyderabad city. Community Led Demand Creation and Community Led Monitoring are the two key outputs of the project and the results are reaching 16000 beneficiaries (People with TB and people with TB like symptoms) on DR-TB prevention, care support services.

  • Objectives
  • Approach
  • Activities
  • Expected outcome
 
  • Strengthen the community response to TB
  • Improve the access of the TB affected communities to TB services such as diagnosis and treatment at the government facilities and contribute to improved health.
  • Build the overall knowledge of the TB affected communities and general communities about general health education, personal hygiene, importance of sanitation and nutritious food.
  • Raise awareness of the TB affected communities on government schemes such as Old Age Pension (OAP), Widow Pension and Disability Pension.
  • Reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by the TB affected PLHAs.

 

CEPT adopted an approach of organizing the TB affected communities into Rainbow TB Association (RTBF) and building their capacities. Moreover, activities such as distributing IEC material and conducting Behaviour Change Communication were also adopted under the project.

   
  • Bringing the TB Patients and other groups under the umbrella of TB Forums
  • Distributing IEC material in the target groups for creating awareness
  • Conducting health education activities to reach wider population
  • Linking the identified patients to the TB units for notification, referral and treatment

 

  • Raised awareness about TB services among the marginalised communities with special reference to women, children and PLHAs
  • Increased knowledge about general health education, personal hygiene, importance of sanitation and nutritious food in the targeted communities and general population.
  • Improved access of the PLHAs to the government facilities offering TB services such as diagnosis and treatment resulting into improved health
  • Increase in the number of people with TB symptoms accessing designated TB diagnostic facilities for initial sputum test
  • Decrease in stigma and discrimination towards the PLHAs affected by TB

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