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Organization Contact Information

Name: Zambia Tuberculosis and Leprosy Trust (ZATULET)
Street 1: Alick Nkhata Road
Street 2: Thabo Mbeki Road
City: Lusaka
Province: Lusaka
Post Code: 10101
Country: Zambia
Phone: 260 211 214434, 260 211 257561
Organization Email: zatulettb@yahoo.com
Web Site: http:// www.zatulet.org
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Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mrs
First Name: Charity
Last Name: Habeenzu
Title: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Email: habeenzu@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: 260 211 977 775668 , 260 211 214434, Telfax 260 211 257561

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr
First Name: Mazuba
Last Name: Mutinta
Title: Project Coordinator
Email: mutintaba@yahoo.com
Phone: 260 211 214434, 260 211 257561, 260 211 979367904

General Information

Board Constituency: Developing Country NGO
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
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Organization Type - Primary: Non-Governmental Organization
Organization Type - Secondary: Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Organization Description:
ZATULET is a non-governmental non profit making NGO in the health sector whose main aim is to supplement government efforts in the fight against TB and Leprosy in the country. It is a registered organisation. It is community based and has a community clinic dealing in TB case- finding, screening, treating tand supervising DOT in the community using trained TB Treatment Volunteers. We have 13 project sites. We mobilise communities giving awareness raising through health talks, door to door, group discussions, drama etc. I am interesting in TB because my Dad and my young sister died of TB. I want to improve case finding, awareness raising in order to prevent and control TB, form an x - TB patient support group and advocacy group. Improve DOT supervision and treatment adherence
 
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Specializations / Areas of Work

Advocacy
Delivery of health services and care
Provision of drugs, diagnostics and commodities
Research and Development

Other Organization Information

Total number of staff in your organization: 11 - 25
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 11 - 25
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 1 - 5
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: 100 +
 
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Stop TB communications
If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who:
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Information on developments within the TB world
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: No
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:
Zambia Tuberculosis and Leprosy Trust works in the NTP clinics at TB corner strenthnening the TB programme. We have 12 TB sites in 5 provinces working in community giving TB health information, referring TB suspects, tracing TB contacts and defaulters, supervising treatment (DOT). We have one community clinic screening TB suspects, collecting sputum for testing offsite, bring back results and treating those diagnosed with TB. We also give ARVs to the TB/HIV co-infected and ready to receive ARVs. We give all TB Data to NTP through the local clinics or district health offices within our operational sites
 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: Zambia
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)
Zambia

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:

TB Care Delivery:
Zambia Tuberculosis and Leprosy Trust is a non profit and non governmental organisation in the health sector whose aim is to supplement government efforts in the fight against TB, HIV/AIDS and Leprosy. In its strange to improve TB diagnosis and treatment it adopted the WHO strategy the "DOTS Expansion and Enhancement. To achieve this strategy it carries out case finding in the community by tracing TB contacts, defaulters and reffering all TB suspects found to the nearest health centres for a sputum test. Our treined TB Treatment Supporters transport sputum samples from treatment centres to diagnostic centres and take results back to treatment centres for diagnosed TB patients to be put on treatment. This way TB suspects get encouraged to come to health centres near their homes because they do not need to travel long distances to diagnostic centres themselves. Our TB Treatment Supporters visit patients in their homes to make sure that they take their medications daily and also give them psychosoial support including spiritual support.We give health education to family members of TB patients including the issues of stigma and discrimination. We also mobilise and sensitise communities on the basic facts about TB and its relation to HIV.

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
I declare that the information I have given is true according to my knowledge. But where it says are you a member of the stop TB Partnership it is written Afhaganstan. It should be Zambia but I failed to erase it since in the selection there is no Zambia. I do not know what it means.

Charity Habeenzu
ZATULET

Application date: June 15, 2010
Last updated: July 19, 2013