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Organization Contact Information

Name: Apollo Tyres Foundatin
Street 1: CW 235 Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar
Street 2:
City: New Delhi
Province:
Post Code: 110042
Country: India
Phone: 9711203909
Organization Email: mohd.dilshad@apollotyres.com
Web Site: http://www.apollotyres.com/india/responsibility-overview.aspx
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Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr.
First Name: Mohd
Last Name: Dilshad
Title: Country Lead
Email: mohd.dilshad@apollotyres.com
Phone: 9711203909

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr.
First Name: Santosh
Last Name: Kumar
Title: Senior Field Officer
Email: santosh.apollo@rediffmail.com
Phone: 9818874052

General Information

Board Constituency: Foundation
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
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Organization Type - Primary: Foundation
Organization Type - Secondary: Private Foundation
Organization Description:
Apollo Tyres Foundation is the CSR wing of Apollo Tyres Ltd. Targeted Intervention Program with truckers is the biggest initiate of the foundation. Truckers are major stakeholders of Apollo Tyres Ltd. TI programme is operational since 2000 and currently has STI clinics/Projects at 21 locations across the country on major halting points (Transport Nagar).The STI treatment, counselling, HIV testing, condom promotion, mid media activities, referral and IEC material distribution is done at all these clinics.

The Centres/Clinics are staffed with qualified doctors, paramedics, counsellors and outreach workers, who work with the immediate community in the transhipment hubs or transport Nagars. The programme focuses on identification and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Behaviour Change communication (BCC), HIV Testing and condom promotion. A large network of peer educators, taken from the community are trained to enable a robust referral system across the transhipment hub. Potential STI individuals are then referred to the clinic by peer educators as well.
With the experience of managing 21 projects with truckers’ community, Apollo tyres plans to address the issue of TB with India Truckers.
 
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Specializations / Areas of Work

Delivery of health services and care
Funding, including innovative and optimized approach to funding TB Care

Other Organization Information

Total number of staff in your organization: 100 +
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 1 - 5
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 6 - 10
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: 11 - 25
 
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in TB control provision
If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who:
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Technical assistance and advice
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: No
Are you in contact with your national TB programme: Yes
Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan:
If we get technical support from STopTB then with our exisiting infrastucture and 200+ human resource can cater to one of the most vulnerabale population of the country.
The TB awareness and services are not even available, accessible to the India truckers population.

This way we can contribute indirectly too much to National Program.
 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: India
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)
India

Contribution

Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below:

TB-HIV:
WE have 21 projects on STI/HIV awraeness and STI treatment across the country, we have started one of the TB project with local governance on pilot basis.WE would like to integrate TB acoss all intereventions.

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
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Application date: August 23, 2013
Last updated: September 12, 2013