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: |
National |
| Organization Description: |
1. Integrated Health Services (IHS Pakistan), Islamabad, is a national healthcare organization working in the curative, preventive, research and consultancy sector, since 1996 in Pakistan. IHS is operating the largest school health network in the country.
2. IHS is implementing a national “School TB Clubs Project”. This project involves school students in creating awareness about Tuberculosis among communities.
3. Since 2007 as SR of Round-6 of The Global Fund, Integrated Health Services (IHS), is implementing ‘Little Doctors Club/Schools TB Clubs Project’, an innovative pilot intervention being carried out for the first time in Pakistan. Through this project school children are made ambassadors and messengers of TB to create awareness among their class mates, school, home and the community as a whole. The awareness thus created aims to enhance the case detection and treatment success rates in the targeted communities/areas. |
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| Total number of staff in your organization: |
26 - 50 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
1 - 5 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: |
100 + |
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| What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? |
Unable to disclose amount |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: |
Other partners |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: |
Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups |
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| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: |
Pakistan |
| 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: |
| IHS is working on the ACSM component so our main aim is to create awareness about Tuberculosis in the communities of the selected districts. We are covering almost all the areas including remote areas of selected districts so we can touch all the communities in the district. 'National TB Control Program Pakistan' is providing diagnosis and treatment facilities free of cost all over Pakistan. |
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Geographical Reach |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: |
Pakistan |
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: |
Eastern Mediterranean |
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Pakistan
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