Project: Treatment for One is Prevention for All (TOPA)
Location: Tamil Nadu
Start: 1st May 2006
Finish: 30th April 2009
Donors: ADRA Germany, Aktion Deutschland Hilft
Budget: € 431,000 EURO
Beneficiaries: 196,000 people, 140 Villages.

Objectives: To improve TB case detection rate and cure rate among 15-50 years population .

Activities: Health education, community outreach and DOTS provision. Expected Outcomes: Communities have clear knowledge and understanding of TB symptoms, mode of transmission, preventive measures and available government DOTS treatment services, communities and service providers are sensitized towards TB related stigmas and discrimination and have developed positive and caring attitudes toward TB patients and their families, every TB patient and TB suspect are supported by DOT providers in their own community

Project: TB Prevention Research
Location: Tamil Nadu
Start: 1st June 2007
Finish: 30th November 2007
Donors: ADRA Netherlands, Private Donors
Budget: $ 22,460 USD
Beneficiaries: 4483 people, 10 Villages

Objectives: To create awareness in the community about TB and reduce stigma attached to TB and TB patients, provide specialized and continuous care for TB patients, give educational support to TB infected children and children of TB patients, provide nutritional assistance to the identified poor TB patients who are on treatment, pilot an operational research to advocate for sputum collection in the community for TB suspects, link case referral of suspected cases from local private practitioners to the existing government RNTCP service providers and to initiate a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative in support of TB patients in community.

Activities: Initiating TB care groups, conducting mobile exhibitions, conduct mega fair/infotainment involving community ownership, conducting health camps, initiating village based kitchen gardens, conducting nutrition demos, sensitizing local private medical practitioners on RNTCP, printing flip charts and pamphlets on TB awareness, initiating educational support to children of TB households, initiating operational research on sputum collection, and conducting DOT provider convention and mentoring existing DOT providers to provide quality TB care.

Expected Outcomes: Ten TB care groups formed and strengthened, 25 mobile exhibitions conducted,1 infotainment conducted, 2 health camps conducted, 100 kitchen gardens initiated, 10 nutrition demos conducted, 25 private medical practitioners sensitized and used as referral points for RNTCP, 150 flipcharts re-printed for circulation to NGOs and government Public Health Centers (PHCs), 10,000 pamphlets printed and distributed among the community creating awareness on TB, 50 deserving children supported for education, 6 months study completed and findings disseminated in one national and one international forum, 1 DOT provider convention completed and TB patients are taken care of by DOT providers in the village