Joint Project working with Lepra India

With support from the Community Fund, TB Alert is working with Lepra UK to support a health project covering 548 villages in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh (India). 

A fact-finding exercise in the Krishna district showed that the groups most in need were women, agricultural labourers, scheduled caste groups (known as Dalits or untouchables) and tribal people.  These groups have very limited knowledge of diseases such as leprosy and TB, and what help is available to them.  There was also a lack of confidence in the free public health care facilities currently available.

The aims of the project are to reduce the vulnerability of the poor rural and urban communities of the district to diseases of poverty such as TB and leprosy.  As the diseases have several features in common it is cost effective to employ workers who deal with both diseases, as well as also providing information and advice on HIV/AIDS and Malaria. 

Read a patient's story.

Click here to read about TB and Leprosy

Read about how the project was affected by the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004

World TB day at the Krishna project

Watch a short video made at one of the health camps at the project. (windows media file).