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Resource group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH)

last updated Mar 18, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
REACH India
Implementation Partner(s): 
The Lilly MDR TB, Chennai Corporation, Tamilnadu State TB society
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1998
Stage: 
Pilot/startup stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
The Global Fund

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Summary: 

REACH is working to incorporate private healthcare providers into the National TB Control Program.

Key program components: 

Resource group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH) is an organization working in areas critical to community health, particularly affecting the lower socio-economic groups. REACH has identified areas in community health that need advocacy and the areas of work include:

  • Involving private healthcare providers and the private sector in the Revised National TB Control Program.
  • Hepatitis-B vaccination programs for underprivileged children and high risk groups.
  • Launching a Tobacco-Free Initiative in the city of Chennai, particularly targeting the youth.

REACH started a program for TB Advocacy for control of TB (ACT Model), among private providers in Chennai to induct them into the National TB Control program. This is a successful example of private-public mix in a community health program. They believe that partnerships between private providers and public health care systems are vital to face challenges in community health and will ensure more awareness, wider coverage, augmenting the efforts of the governmental agencies and thereby reducing the disease burden in the community.

The Advocacy for Control of TB (ACT) model involving private sector in TB control is one of the few established working models in India. The philosophy of collective responsibility for issues that are for public good is one that is being actively promoted by the WHO, especially in areas like TB Control and the Tobacco free initiative. It is this concept of collective responsibility that they are attempting to promote among the private providers. REACH works with the technical support of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, a pioneering research institution of the Indian Council of Medical Research, which has played a pivotal role in evolving the intermittent short course chemotherapy and domiciliary treatment for TB.

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