Our workforce and board bring a strong clinical understanding of TB with a deep recognition of its social dimensions. Our work with governments, donor agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has assisted diverse communities across many geographic settings.
These are built on our experience in the UK and in high TB incidence settings in India, Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The mental effects of TB still affect me today.
The counseling they received helped them both through Rupesh’s battle with multi-drug-resistant TB but it did more than this. Sumanjha was inspired to train as a TB support worker herself.
Our advocacy and our field programmes are two sides of the same coin. While our fieldwork directly assists individuals and communities in overcoming barriers to TB diagnosis and care, our advocacy ensures the necessary policies and resources are in place to achieve the same goals on a wider scale.
We strive to prevent TB, provide comprehensive care for everyone affected by it, and control the spread of the infection.
Whenever I needed support during my treatment, Sumanjha was there to help me, and I am very proud she is now working with TB Alert India to help other people suffering from TB.
Partnering with civil society, healthcare providers, and governments, we push for better resources and drive investment in new vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments.
Our partners include the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB, the Stop TB Partnership, and the TB Europe Coalition.
These organisations are best positioned to help local communities because they understand the socio-economic and cultural barriers to testing, diagnosis, and treatment.
We build the capacity of these local partners to advocate with governments at local and national levels for the health rights of people at risk of TB.
We support the development of patient-based associations – both in the UK and in our overseas programmes – to amplify their voices.
I say, ‘Look at me, I live with HIV and I have had TB too’, but I have not let it hold me back.
She soon felt “less alone” and had “hope for the future”. Now, Amy chairs the group to help others avoid the same experience as her. As part of the community’s TB advocacy work, she has spoken in the European and UK parliaments.
We work with community representatives, government stakeholders, and healthcare providers to develop sustainable, customised interventions and programme proposals.
TB Alert provides technical advisory, training and monitoring support to enable organisations to deliver high standard programmes while at the same time developing their staff capabilities.
Our work focuses on raising awareness of TB, among both the communities at highest risk of developing the illness and the organisations that work with them. We also help people to access life-saving treatment and support them during this difficult time.
We identify new TB cases and provide essential support to patients throughout their treatment journey.
We establish and support community-based health groups to engage local populations and facilitate access to care.
We develop professional educational materials for healthcare providers to improve the quality of TB services.
We focus on raising awareness among communities at the highest risk of TB, as well as the organisations that serve them, ensuring people can access life-saving treatment and support.
TB Alert has been our technical adviser on the ‘TB in the Mining Sector in Southern Africa’ programme.
Their training has been invaluable in ensuring that field staff across eight countries could achieve the goals of the programme to quality and on a timely basis.
The TB Alert team also developed our organisational TB capacity, developed our monitoring and evaluation system and undertook in-depth monitoring visits.
Thankfully, the project team stepped in providing emotional and nutritional assistance that helped me recover.
