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TB Alert’s Hyderabad Urban DOTS project was a pilot project aiming to improve access to TB diagnosis and treatment for people living in slum areas of Hyderabad (especially at-risk groups such as women and children, people with HIV or other immune diseases). The project area covered 840 slums with a population of approximately 1.2million people (about 1/3 of the population of Hyderabad).
The pilot project proved to be very successful, illustrated by the results below:
Project indicators
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Before the project |
End of Project |
Symptomatics screened (whole project area) |
24,227 |
41,302 |
Symptomatics screened from slum areas |
8,360 |
23,173 |
New Sputum Smear Positive (whole project area) |
1,982 |
2,704 |
New Sputum Smear positive from slum areas |
753 |
1,367 |
Case detection rate |
49.5/100.000 |
67.5/100,000 |
Stakeholder involvement
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Before the project
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End of Project |
Private Practitioners (whole project area) |
1,858 |
2,696 |
Private Health Institutions (whole project area) |
3,471 |
18,782 |
Private Practitioners (slum areas) |
734 |
1,544 |
Private Health Institutions (slum areas) |
1,372 |
8,542 |
Private Practitioners functioning as DOT providers |
296 |
912 |
Knowledge Attitude and Practice Surveys (KAP)
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Before the project |
End of Project |
TB patients diagnosed through sputum testing |
60% |
90% |
Community members aware of TB symptoms |
25% |
96% |
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