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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | Womenplus Health |
| Street 1: | Ongata Rongai |
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| City: | Ongata Rongai |
| Province: | Rift Valley province |
| Post Code: | 00511 |
| Country: | Kenya |
| Phone: | +254 737 383941 |
| Organization Email: | womenplus.health@gmail.com |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developing Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
| If yes, please enter your registration number: | |
| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Community-Based Organization (CBO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Womenplus is a community based women led organization registered in Jan 2011 that empowers rural women with information on TB and HIV. we conduct defaulter tracing and support patients on treatment to prevent emergence of drug resistance TB due to non adherence, we also teach patients on the patients charter so that they understand their roles and responsibilities towards a TB free society, We understand that women bears the scourge of TB and HIV infection in Kenya- we have lost loved ones to TB and HIV and we live with HIV and affected by TB, most of us have survived Tuberculosis | |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy Provision of drugs, diagnostics and commodities |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 26 - 50 |
| 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: | Information on developments within the TB world |
| 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: | |
| Womenplus is a community based women led organization that empowers women with information on TB and HIV. we conduct defaulter tracing and support patients on treatment to prevent emergence of drug resistance TB due to non adherence, we also teah patients on the patients charter so that they understand their roles and responsibilities towards a TB free society | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Kenya |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Kenya |
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: Conduct DOTs expansion to prevent emergence of Drug resistance TB Drug-Resistant TB: Preventing drug resistance TB TB-HIV: Better intergration of TB and HIV, the relationship between the two New Diagnostics: Need for better better diagonistic tools New TB Drugs: Sensitize on the need for better TB drugs, and challenges with the available ones New TB Vaccines: Sensitize communities on the need for a new TB vaccine and encouraging them to partcicpate in TB vaccines research and development |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | November 29, 2012 |
| Last updated: | January 8, 2013 |