Our Activities

Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) :

Introduction :

The programme is in the process of establishing a nation-wide network of quality assured sputum culture and drug susceptibility testing (C&DST) laboratories for the diagnosis and follow-up of drug resistant TB (DR-TB) patients and XDR patients. To supplement the planned sputum culture and DST laboratories in the public sector, this partnership option will help to involve established and well-functioning mycobacteriology laboratories in the non-governmental / private / corporate sector in assisting RNTCP’s sputum/specimen mycobacterial C&DST activities. Urban slum-dwellers require intensive focus and support from the tuberculosis programme, as these populations often are not able to access timely diagnosis or complete the full duration of anti TB treatment, and hence are at risk of unfavourable treatment outcomes including deaths, defaults, failures and drug resistance.

 

Role of NGO:

• Tracing of TB-HIV patients
• Counseling of TB-HIV patients on the importance of ART and free availability of evaluation for ART and treatment.
• Mobilizing the TB-HIV patients to ART centers and henceforth regularly maintain routine visits to the centre.
• Attend the District Meeting on TB –HIV collaboration for effective coordination
• Maintain records of these patients

 

 

Objectives:

1.To review the TB Control strategies  and share information and learn from experiments and                                                                                   experiences on public private partnership for  TB control in the region.

2.To discuss adaption to local contexts of successful strategies used in pilot public private partnership projects

3.To recommend strategies to promote implementation-expansion replication of success public private partnership

4.To develop monitoring system for public private partnership projects

Project Area:

Sl.No	District	Block
1.	Cooch Behar	Tufangang
		Mathabhanga-I
		Dinhata-I
		Coochbehar-I
2.	Purba Medinipur	Ramnagar-I & II
		Contai-I
		Contai Municipality
3.	Jhargram	Silda
		Sankrail
		Manikpara-Mohanpur
		Jhargram –Mohanpur
4.	South 24 Parganas	Jirangacha TU
		Nalmuri TU
5.	Darjeeling	Phansidewa BPHC
		Kharibari RH
		Naxalbari RH
		Siliguri Municipality-I
		Siliguri Municipality-II
6.	Purulia	Arsha BPHC