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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | SOCIETY OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY TUBERCULOSIS (SOPAT) |
| Street 1: | 24/40 CHIME AVENUE, AFTER FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC |
| Street 2: | NEW HAVEN, ENUGU or At No. 53 ENUGU ROAD OPPOSITE FIN BANK PLC., AGBANI, NKANU WEST L.G.A., ENUGU |
| City: | COAL CITY STATE, NIGERIA |
| Province: | WEST AFRICA |
| Post Code: | +234 |
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Phone: | +2348060288480 |
| Email: | sopat4u@yahoo.com |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developing Country NGO |
| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
| Organization Reach: | International |
| Organization Description: | |
| FOUNDER OF THE NGO: SOPAT. IN 1995 MANY MEMBERS OF MY NGO (21 No) WERE VICTIMS OF TB, ESPECIALLY MY HUMBLE SELF. I WAS ADMITTED AMONG OTHERS UNDERGOING TREATMENT AT MILE FOUR HOSPITAL, ABAKALIKI, EBONYI STATE OF NIGERIA FOR A PERIOD OF 8 MONTHS. AFTER OUR TREATMENT PERIOD AFTER WERE CURED FREE OF CHARGE AND DISCHARGED ACCORDINGLY BEFORE WE WENT AND FORMED THIS ORGANISATION BASED IN ENUGU, NIGERIA FROM 2005. | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 26 - 50 |
| What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? | $10,001-$25,000 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Attendance at a TB related event |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Network with other partners |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | Nigeria |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: | Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: | |
| 1. SOPAT participate fully with the national tuberculosis and leprosy control program as it concerns mobilizing the community in the fight against TB 2. It is presently partnering with Civil Society for the Eradication of Tuberculosis in Nigeria (TB NETWORK) in the areas of anti TB activities and control plan at both community and local government level in association with State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI-DFID of U.K. via Enugu, Nigeria. 3. Contributing to State TB Working Group in the areas of monitoring and tracking of TB suspect for early detection and treatment through DOTs centers in the State 4. Through NETWORKING with other partners and friends |
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Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Nigeria |
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: | African |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Nigeria |
Specializations | |
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Advocacy, communication and social mobilization Delivery of health services and care Research and Development Technical Assistance |
Specializations in Countries | |
| Advocacy, communication and social mobilization | Nigeria |
| Research and Development | Nigeria |
Contribution | |
| Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below: | |
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DOTS Expansion and Enhancement: We plan to contribute through networking with the Voice of Children International (VOCI.), at the Obinagu-Uwani, Primary Health Care Center (PHC), Akpugo, in Nkanu-West Local Government Area among other development partners in the field. Some of our contributions so far was funded by the Family Health International (FHI/GHAIN)-HSS Project, from Awka Anambra State Zonal Office, between first of August, 2010 and present We are also helping to strengthening programs for the protection of (0-5) zero to five years Children and pregnant Women in the society through Educating and mobilizing the Community of the need/essence of TB Eradication Treatment and control. And finally encourage DOTS Expansion and Enhancement- Includes advocacy community's and society mobilization TB-HIV: We contributes through holding bi-monthly meetings on TB-HIV and Expansion program.We also Work with Community Volunteers by using them in visiting of places, homes and reaching the needy among others, including persons affected/infected by TB-HIV. Others are plans for creating awareness, stigma reduction activities, voluntary counseling and testing to mention but a few. Laboratory Strengthening: We encourage community out reach activities, early sputum x3 testing and supporting of Laboratory Strengthening by Educating the affected/infected persons where to go and what to do at appropriate time New Diagnostics: Our major contribution is to help track and or treat any early cases of TB and also plan to report new cases as they come. Fundamental Research: In our contribution and plans,we don't quarrel with any old research. But we plan to create some real new ideas/innovations to ease fundamental research towards TB eradication and control at grass root level, etc. Operational Research: Statistic show that we finds it useful by using our Operational Research Skills, Reporting mechanism, writing and wealth of experiences to share with others in the relevant field which we now operate on. It may interest you to known/recall that we were previously victims of TB before we all under go treatment. After the treatment,(10) ten of us as the founding members were discharged free of charge before we now went to establish this small, but an International TB NGO-SOPAT in Enugu, Nigeria. To this end, we think that sky is the beginning of our limit in the field of Operational Research. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | December 10, 2009 |
| Last updated: | September 10, 2011 |