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A Human Rights Based Response to TB Workshop
Rhetoric of Rights to Reality of Rights – A Human Rights-based Response to TB Lately TB and Human Rights has gained a lot of attention and progress towards Human Rights as an integral component of TB response. A rights based response in TB was not considered until a couple of years ago. The Global Coalition […]
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The Global Coalition of TB Activists Board Meeting
Amsterdam : The training module Transforming the TB Response – Capacity Building of Communities to be Change Agents was pre-launched at the GCTA board meeting taking place in Amsterdam. The module was developed by GCTA in extensive consultation with partners globally, including partners from regional coalitions, drug user forums, trans gender groups, sex worker networks, […]
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WHO Civil Society Task Force at the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group Meeting
11 – 13 JUNE 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Our CEO, Blessina Kumar represented GCTA at the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group meeting hosted by WHO in Geneva, Switzerland from the 11 – 13 June 2019 as a member of the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB (CSTF). She had the opportunity to push for patient-centred […]
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Nominations for 2019 Reach Awards Now Open(Recognizing Excellence Around Champions of Health)
The REACH Awards honor frontline health workers and innovators striving to reach the last mile of disease elimination for polio, malaria, NTDs and other preventable infectious diseases. The 2019 REACH Award Categories include: Unsung Hero Award: An extraordinary individual who has played a transformative, frontline role in the field of disease elimination, but has been […]
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Transforming the TB Response – Capacity Building of Communities to be Change Agents
Globally, TB continues to one of the top 10 killers in the world even after a steady increase in political will and commitment to eradicate TB. We believe that one of the reasons for this is the lack of effective engagement of affected communities in the TB response. Ending TB is only possible by meaningfully […]
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Stakeholder and Partners Consultation on Capacity Building Modules – Change Agents Training
Globally, TB continues to one of the top 10 killers in the world even after a steady increase in political will and commitment to eradicate TB. We believe that this failure can be attributed only to the missing link between the affected communities and policy makers. We can only end TB by meaningfully engaging with […]
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Launch of the Capacity Building Training Modules for Affected Community for Accelerated Response to DR-TB in South-East Asia Region at the Regional Meeting of NTP Managers and Partners 13th -15th May, 2019
The Capacity building modules were developed by WHO-SERO and GCTA with support from IFRC and Stop TB Partnership. The modules went through extensive peer review by technical partners, affected community members and NTPs. We are thankful to WHO-SEARO for the initiative. In her message Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO-SERO said, “Community engagement must […]
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