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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | Umvoti Aids Centre |
| Street 1: | Lot 568, Bell Street Extension |
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| City: | Greytown |
| Province: | Kwa-Zulu Natal |
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| Country: | South Africa |
| Phone: | 0334932746 |
| Organization Email: | derek@umvoti.org |
| Web Site: | http://www.umvoti.org |
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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: | |
| Our mission is to design and implement effective chronic care interventions in HIV and TB to marginalized groups in various settings. We have long worked with the Department of Health on both DS and DR TB interventions including community rollout of low cost interventions and have presented our work at TB conferences. We are involved in a variety of TB interventions from household level case finding to community based training and support the Department of Helth with training for TB teams in DS and DR TB. |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Delivery of health services and care Technical Assistance Working on Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Working on Key Populations related to TB |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 51 - 99 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Attendance at a TB related event |
| 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: | Resource mobilization |
| 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: | |
| Case identification including for DR TB through Gene-Xpert, community and health cadre training, adherence support, community based (non-facility) care through partnerships with Health, public health awareness and publishing of educational materials. | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | South Africa |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
South Africa |
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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TB Care Delivery: Comunity training and dialogues, HCW training, adherence support in deep rural communities. Drug-Resistant TB: Case finding and defaulter tracing. TB-HIV: Combination prevention therapy programmes, chronic care dispensing. Research: MARPS, including farm workers, sex workers, OVC, community versus health facility care. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | July 26, 2017 |
| Last updated: | July 27, 2017 |