Programme & experience

Urban TB Control Programme

  • JANTRA has been implementing community –Based Urban TB Control Program since 2008
  • Mobilization of Urban TB volunteers and health workers to identify presumptive TB cases and referral for diagnosis and treatment center
  • Partnership and networking with local stakeholders including private sector
  • Establishment of Volunteer’s Trust Fund (VTF)
  • TB awareness activity in school and factories

Major Challenges in Urban TB control

  • Limited TB related activities for medical collages and private sectors
  • Lack of Supportive Supervision in UHC
  • No monitoring of contact investigation
  • Lack of social/community mobilization activity
  • No proper mechanism for tracing Transfer out cases
  • Urban Health Clinic Opening time is not patients friendly
  • Lack of TB stigma reduction and Human Rights activities

Organizational Experience

Program

Partner

Thematic Areas

Urban TB Control

RIT/JATA

  • Establish patients friendly clinic
  • Enhance capacity of health care providers and volunteers
  • Laboratory services and awareness activity

Integrated Community Development Project

FIDR, Japan

  • MCH, Nutrition, Health, Education and Agriculture

TB REACH Wave - 4

UNOPS/Stop TB Partnership

  • Increased case finding, among Key population, PPM, children, waste management collectors

NSA

GFATM

  • Urban TB, PPM, PAL, ACSM, IC and TB/HIV

Organization’s Experience

Program

Partner

Thematic Areas

Post Disaster Recovery Project

UNOPS

  • Active TB screening and counseling among IDPs,
  • Establish Sputum sample currier mechanism
  • Community Involvement

Psycho-Social counseling and Nutritional Support

RIT/JATA

  • Enhance psycho-social counseling capacity of community Health Workers and volunteers
  • Provide nutritional support package for needy TB patients

Prevalence of DM among New and Relapse cases in Kathmandu Valley

NCGM

  • Cross sectional study (Using Rapid Glucose Test, Hb1AC test)

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Gandaki Province

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