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| Name: | Barokupot Ganochetona Foundation |
| Street 1: | South Barokupot, Henchi, Shyamnagor, Satkhira; Shyamnagar PS; Satkhira - 9452; Bangladesh |
| Street 2: | N/A |
| City: | Satkhira |
| Province: | Khulna |
| Post Code: | 9452 |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Phone: | 01711928502 |
| Organization Email: | gchetona@gmail.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.gchetona.org.bd |
| Other Online Presence: | N/A |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | None |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
| If yes, please enter your registration number: | • Directorate of Social Services, Government of Bangladesh Vide Regd. No. 648/Sat/06, Dated- 15.03.2006. • Government of Bangladesh Registered with Joint Stock Co. (Act. XXI of 1860) Vide Regd. No. Dhaka-S-6850 (38) /07, Dated- 11.07.2007. • BGF is regi |
| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Community-Based Organization (CBO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Objectives and Activities of our Organization Objectives: The main objective of the organization is to improve the health, nutrition and quality of life of the indigenous Munda, Dalit, minority, internally displaced, disabled and special needs communities living in coastal disaster-prone areas. Especially to ensure their overall welfare by controlling tuberculosis, increasing nutrition awareness and ensuring healthcare. Main Activities: 1. Health and Nutrition: Ensuring healthcare, nutrition awareness and food security for marginalized communities. 2. Tuberculosis Control: Providing tuberculosis identification, prevention and treatment support and conducting awareness-raising activities. 3. Empowerment of women and persons with disabilities: Empowering them, especially women and persons with disabilities, through improving healthcare and nutrition. 4. Increasing climate resilience: Developing healthy lifestyles and sustainable agricultural systems in disaster-prone areas. 5. Human Rights and Social Justice: Ensuring healthcare and basic rights of marginalized communities. Through these activities, the organization is working to improve the sustainable health and quality of life of poor and marginalized communities. Why is our organization interested in implementing programs on tuberculosis? Our organization works to improve the health, nutrition and quality of life of Dalits, tribal Mundas, minorities, internally displaced people, disabled and special needs communities living in the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh, especially in the disaster-prone areas of the foothills of the Sundarbans. The risk of tuberculosis in this region is very high due to climate change, poverty, malnutrition and limited access to healthcare. From our work experience, we have observed that— 1. Tuberculosis infection is more common among poor and marginalized communities. 2. Most people are not aware of the symptoms and treatment of tuberculosis, as a result of which many remain outside th |
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| Do you know about the UNHLM declaration: | Yes |
Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy Civil Society and Community Engagement Delivery of health services and care Working on Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Working on Key Populations related to TB |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 51 - 99 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 26 - 50 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 26 - 50 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 100 + |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Internet search |
| If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who: | N/A |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Information on developments within the TB world |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | Bangladesh |
| 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: | |
| Our organization is making a significant contribution to the National Tuberculosis Control Program of Bangladesh, especially through TB ??prevention, treatment, and awareness-raising activities among Dalits, tribal Mundas, minorities, disabled, and other marginalized communities living in the southwestern coastal, disaster-prone, and climate-vulnerable regions of the country. Your Contribution 1. Raising TB awareness at the grassroots level Raising awareness among the public by disseminating information about TB disease. Conducting awareness campaigns, posters, and campaigns suitable for local languages. Increasing trust in modern medicine by eliminating prejudices among Dalit and tribal communities. 2. TB identification and primary care provision Identifying potential TB patients at the initial stage through local health workers and volunteers. Referring patients for TB testing at nearby health centers and following up. Creating opportunities for free testing for patients at the community level. 3. Support for TB treatment Monitoring TB patients to ensure regular treatment. Providing assistance with travel expenses and nutritious food for treatment, especially for poor, Dalit, tribal, and special needs patients. 4. Increasing social acceptance of TB patients Organizing community dialogue and exchange meetings to remove common misconceptions against TB. Campaigning to reduce discrimination against TB patients. 5. Coordination with National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) Working in coordination with government and private health centers. Transferring information on TB patients to the government health department. Providing training to health workers as part of the National Tuberculosis Control Program. Results and Impact ? Increased detection and treatment rates of TB patients in coastal areas. ? Increased awareness about TB among the poor and Dalit population. ? Increased access to healthcare for marginalized populations. ? Successfully implemented community-based initiatives to cure TB. This contribution from your organization is playing a significant role in making the National Tuberculosis Control Program a success at the grassroots level and is helping in the inclusive development of the health care system. |
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Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Bangladesh |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Bangladesh |
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: | |
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TB Care Delivery: Our organization may follow the following key points in implementing Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) activities under the TB Care Delivery Program: 1. Advocacy ? Engaging policymakers – Organizing dialogues and policy consultation meetings with local administration, health departments, and public representatives. ? Establishing the rights of TB patients – Demanding policy changes to increase free treatment, nutritional support, and employment opportunities. ? Public-private partnerships – Increasing cooperation between public and private organizations to improve the health care system. 2. Communication ? Promoting public awareness – Raising awareness about TB symptoms, treatment, and prevention through the creation of posters, leaflets, and videos in local languages. ? Using community radio and social media – Disseminating awareness messages through radio and digital media. ? Training and Workshops – To raise awareness on TB prevention through training of health workers, local volunteers, and teachers. 3. Social Mobilization ? Increasing social empathy towards TB patients – To promote dialogue and role models at the community level to remove social stigma. ? Involvement of local leadership and religious leaders – To involve community leaders in spreading the TB message. ? Support systems for TB patients – To provide nutritional support, psychological support, and initiatives to rehabilitate the patient within the family and community. Since our organization works with Dalits, tribals, minorities, and disabled people, it is important to adopt linguistic, cultural, and marginalized community-friendly strategies for these communities. Drug-Resistant TB: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a serious health problem, which is further complicated by the infection becoming resistant to commonly used anti-TB drugs. Our organization is working on TB control, but has not previously conducted any specific project or activity on drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB/XDR-TB). Our organization has worked on drug-resistant tuberculosis: What you need to know about drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB)? 1. MDR-TB and XDR-TB: MDR-TB: This is a form of tuberculosis where two important drugs such as rifampicin and isoniazid do not work. XDR-TB: This is more complicated, where first-line as well as some second-line drugs do not work. 2. Prevention and Awareness: It is necessary to ensure proper treatment of tuberculosis, take medicine on time, and increase patient awareness. It is important to properly test and quickly identify people who have come into contact with an infected person. 3. Improved treatment system: DR-TB patients need specialized treatment, which is much longer and more expensive than general TB treatment. Our organization's activities: Awareness raising programs: Conduct training, workshops, and local community campaigns to make marginalized populations aware of DR-TB. Diagnosis and treatment support: Establish links with health centers to identify DR-TB and help bring affected people under appropriate treatment. Nutrition and support services: Provide nutritious food and psychosocial support to DR-TB patients. Policy support: Advocacy to ensure cooperation from governments and international organizations for DR-TB patients TB-HIV: The activities implemented by our organization for the control and prevention of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV can be as follows: 1. Tuberculosis Control Activities: ? Awareness Raising: Community meetings, street plays, leaflet distribution, and campaigns in local languages ??to raise awareness about tuberculosis at the grassroots level. Providing information about the symptoms, transmission, and treatment of tuberculosis among Dalits, tribal Mundas, minorities, and backward communities. ? Patient Identification and Referral: Identifying people with symptoms of tuberculosis (especially poor, vulnerable populations) and referring them to government and private health centers for free testing. Collecting sputum samples from suspected patients and sending them to the laboratory. ? Medical Support: Encouraging them to seek medical care and monitoring at the community level to ensure regular medication intake (DOTS – Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course). Providing food and nutritional support, so that tuberculosis patients can recover. ? Integrated work against tuberculosis and malnutrition: Training and conducting programs on anti-tuberculosis and nutritious food intake. ? Special attention to vulnerable populations: Special health services for climate refugees, poor, Dalits, women, children, workers, disabled and special needs populations. --- 2. HIV control activities: ? HIV awareness and prevention: Raising awareness among vulnerable populations, especially sex workers, migrant workers, drug users and marginalized populations. Training on safe sex, the need for condom use and prevention of HIV infection. ? Health screening and counseling: Providing free or low-cost HIV testing and counseling services. Ensuring treatment and psychological support for HIV positive patients. ? Treatment and support for HIV infected people: Support to ensure nutritious food support and free treatment for PLHIV (People Living with HIV) or HIV infected people. Awareness and treatment activities to prevent dual infection of HIV and tuberculosis. ? Prevention of prejudice and discrimination: Creating awareness at the community level to eliminate social discrimination and prejudice against HIV infected people. Results and impact: Through our organization, many marginalized communities have got the opportunity to get tested for tuberculosis and HIV. Due to increased awareness, infected people have become interested in receiving treatment and their social acceptance has increased. As a result of nutrition and health support, the recovery rate of tuberculosis patients has increased. Effective steps have been taken to prevent dual infection of HIV and TB. Our organization's activities are playing an important role in the prevention and control of tuberculosis and HIV locally. In order to take more effective initiatives in the future, we can build partnerships with government and international organizations New Diagnostics: Our organization is aware of the new vaccine for tuberculosis and has conducted awareness campaigns on this issue. Currently, BCG vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, which is usually given to children soon after birth. However, there is a need for new vaccines to control tuberculosis in adults. In India, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is conducting Phase III trials of two potential vaccines with the aim of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025. Our organization has taken the following steps as part of its awareness campaign for tuberculosis control: Awareness meetings and workshops: To increase knowledge about tuberculosis among the local community and discuss the need for new vaccines. Health check-up camps: To organize health camps to identify early signs of tuberculosis and provide necessary counseling. Information dissemination: To disseminate information about tuberculosis and its prevention through various promotional materials such as leaflets, posters, etc. Coordination with local health authorities: To collaborate with the health department and other relevant agencies to collect information about the new vaccine and disseminate it among the community. Through these activities, our organization is playing a vital role in preventing and controlling tuberculosis among marginalized communities in coastal regions New TB Drugs: Our organization is fully aware of the following: 1. Conventional first-line drugs: Isoniazid (INH), Rifampicin (RIF), Pyrazinamide (PZA), Ethambutol (EMB) etc. 2. Outpatient TB treatment and awareness activities: Identifying patients in coastal areas and ensuring regular treatment. 3. Malnutrition and food assistance among TB patients: Malnutrition is a major challenge for TB patients, which your organization may have considered. What do we know about new drugs? If our organization wants to know about new TB drugs, then the following things are necessary to know: 1. New drugs for drug-resistant (MDR-TB & XDR-TB) When regular TB drugs do not work many times, some new generation drugs are used: Bedaquiline (Bedaquiline - BDQ): Used for extensively drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Delamanid (DLM): Effective in children and adults, especially for MDR-TB patients. Pretomanid (Pa): New addition to the treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). 2. Short-Course Therapy Instead of the usual 6-9 months, some short-course therapies have now come, such as: BPaL Regimen (Bedaquiline + Pretomanid + Linezolid): A short therapy of 6 months for XDR-TB and DR-TB patients. TB Preventive Therapy (TPT): Used to reduce the risk of tuberculosis infection, such as the combination of Rifapentine + Isoniazid. 3. New technologies and vaccines M72/AS01E Vaccine: This new vaccine is currently in clinical trials and may be effective in preventing tuberculosis in the future. Things to do for our organization 1. Stay updated: Get regular training on new treatments, drugs and treatment methods. 2. Digital data storage: Keep a record of the number of MDR-TB patients in your area, which drugs are working or not. 3. Government and NGO cooperation: Work according to the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP, Bangladesh) and WHO guidelines. 4. Special treatment arrangements for drug-resistant patients: If there are more MDR/XDR-TB patients, arrange for access to advanced treatment. 5. Awareness raising among the local community: Train health workers and inform them about new drugs and treatments New TB Vaccines: We have been working in TB control for a long time, so we know about BCG vaccine and drug-resistant forms of TB (MDR-TB, XDR-TB). However, it is very important to be aware of new experimental vaccines and their effectiveness. Possible aspects of our organization's TB awareness activities: 1. Awareness campaign on TB symptoms and prevention - Making villagers aware that chronic cough, fever, weight loss, etc. can be symptoms of TB and that they need to be tested immediately. 2. Awareness raising about curability and treatment - Many people think that TB is uncontrollable, so it is important to convince them that it is a completely curable disease. 3. Support for TB detection and testing - Creating linkages for detection and treatment of recently infected patients at local health centers or through mobile medical camps. 4. Nutrition and health promotion – Ensuring nutritious food for TB patients is very important for their well-being. 5. Special awareness activities for women, Dalits and tribal communities – as these groups are often deprived of healthcare. 6. Disseminating information about new vaccines – If new vaccines are available for the general public, work to make them easily available. What our organization can do: ? Stay updated on new research – Gather information from international TB research organizations (e.g. WHO, Stop TB Partnership). ? Coordinate with local health departments – They can update you on new vaccines and treatment methods. ? Organize awareness meetings in the community – Share new information with health workers and the general public. ? Run nutrition support programs for TB patients – This speeds up the healing process |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: I will never be associated with any anti -moral behavior. In the implementation of the activities, no immoral money will be involved in the transaction. I promise that I will not be involved in the conflict of interest. Which my knowledge is unbelievable | |
| Application date: | February 6, 2025 |
| Last updated: | February 6, 2025 |