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Nutrition and Tuberculosis Control Program for Children
Nutrition and Tuberculosis Control Program for Children
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2008Short-term project
Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
Health focus
- Maternal, newborn and child health
- Tuberculosis
Summary
The ICDDR,B Nutrition Programme has started a health systems-based approach to the detection of childhood TB cases in the Tangail district of Bangladesh. The project aims to create a network of community health workers (CHWs) and village doctors to effectively detect and treat TB in children.Program goals
The two year project aims to screen all children up to 14 years of age in the two of Tangail's sub-districts.
Key program components
The community screening of children is based on four questions asked by the CHWs:
1. Are other members of the household are suffering from TB?
2. Has the fever lasted for more than 7 days?
3. Has the cough lasted for more than two weeks?
4. Is the child less active compared to children of similar age?
Children having two or more ‘yes’ answers to the four questions are then escorted by the CHW to the TB clinic at the sub-district health complex. A doctor examines the child and uses the WHO algorithm (questionnaire) to diagnose TB. Once diagnosed, the child is enrolled for treatment under the directly observed treatment-short course (DOTS) as per the national guidelines for management of TB. The village doctors, trained appropriately under the project, dispense the medicines to the children.The project received the World Bank's Development Marketplace Award and is being supported by the award money
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