Stop TB Partnership

Challenge Facility Good Practice

Wote Youth Development in Kenya is providing treatment support to Brian, a 20-year old high-school graduate that fell ill with tuberculosis.

The email further explains: "Brian was tested and found sero-negative for HIV. Through the Stop TB Partnership Brian will have the option to have the assistance from a community treatment supporter who will support him in taking his drugs regularly. Brian and other like him are grateful to the unseen donor (stoptb challenge facility). It is my duty to make sure Brian and others do not die of TB." -signed by Peter Owiti, Director, Wote Youth.

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Integrated Development in Focus (DIF) was formed as a capacity building social development agency involved primarily in poverty reduction, preventive health education, reproductive health, and the development of networks to empower poor vulnerable women, youth and children, to realize their own development.The organisation assists communities to work effectively with established traditional community processes of collective problem solving.

Ghana Health Services designated communities where DIF could implement the CFCS project. Although the community assigned is hard to reach for DIF staff and difficult to work with because of their high expectations in return for attending DIF activities, very positive unexpected outcomes were reported: the occurrence of unplanned spontaneous activities by the community, for example.

NGO staff did not give trainings themselves, the trainings were conducted by staff from the municipality. Afterwards, the community demanded more efforts and education on TB from the trained volunteers. DIF won the TB Survival Prize 2009 for its innovative and empowering campaigns in uplifting communities affected by TB and MDR-TB. Nominations for the award were judged by a jury and chaired by Nobel Laureate Betty Williams.

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Horizons Femmes is an association in Cameroon advocating to reduce the social inequalities, particularly those affecting women, girls and children, as well as promoting the health of women and girls regarding HIV/AIDS, TB and tropical diseases.

Click here to watch their video about the CFCS grant [.wmv]

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Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) is a national non-governmental organization focusing on women and children's wellbeing. HFFG has experienced staff and a long history tackling health issues and doing community mobilization resulting in an easy mainstreaming of TB activities into HFFG`s on-going work.

HGGF was given the task by the Ghana Health Service to work in 5 communities near Ajumako that are difficult to reach. The grant was implemented in partnership with the National TB Control Programme.

TB education in the community

Theatre troupe

The goal of the project was to reduce TB infection among community members and engaging community based health volunteers to reduce stigma and discrimination and trace defaulters. The advocacy goal was to create community awareness on TB/HIV and advocate for community support to TB clients and reducing the misconceptions surrounding TB. The grant targeted people living with HIV/AIDS, community members, school children and contacts of TB infected persons.

More information [.pdf]