Target TB working in partnership with the Agnes Kunze Society Horizon for Prosperity and Education (AKS HOPE Project)

Country/regional profile
India has a population of approximately 1.1 billion people. It is the 12th largest economy in the world, however, despite dramatic economic growth in recent years, over 25% of Indians still live on less than $1 a day.

India has the highest incidence of infectious TB in the world. Untreated cases of TB can be fatal and around 1,000 Indians die of TB everyday.

AKS Hope work in the Madrasi Colony, one of the poorest slum settlements in the city of Dheradun, located in the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand State, NE India. Their efforts are focused on disadvantaged individuals and communities within these slums, including street children, orphans and people affected by HIV/AIDS and TB.

Our work with A.K.S. HOPE Project
Target TB has recently partnered with AKS Hope, a small developing community based organisation which is working to reduce the burden of TB in the Madrasi slum community. We are working together to implement TB control activities, as well as providing capacity building support to assist the development of this emerging community organisation.

Project Aims

• To raise awareness among people about TB
• To encourage people suspected of TB to be tested at government diagnostic centres
• To provide supervise treatment and provide support to people with TB

Project Activities

• TB awareness raising camps to reach people living in urban slum areas of Dehradun with a particular focus on daily wage labourers, migrants and truckers
• To refer people with TB symptoms for testing at government recognised TB diagnostic centres
• To supervise DOTS for TB patients to improve treatment completion and cure rates.