Delhi Integrated Community Volunteers Initiative
The initiative focuses on involving the communities as active stakeholders in generating awareness on TB and motivating people with TB - like symptoms for testing and treatment services. Building the capacities of community level stakeholders and front-line health workers to sustain the local action is key objective of the project. TBAI is being implemented this project with the generous support from TB Alert UK for the last more than 10 years. On successful role out of the model, NTEP have now adopted and supporting TBAI under financial grant in aid to execute the activities in two DMCs of Delhi.
- Improve early detection of TB and increase new TB patient detection and treatment success rate
- Increase identification of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) patients and provide patient support services to successfully complete the treatment course.
- 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
