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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | Community Health Development Organisation |
| Street 1: | Kaneshie |
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| City: | Accra |
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| Country: | Ghana |
| Phone: | + 233 243 014 663 |
| Organization Email: | communityhealthd@yahoo.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.communityhealth.eu5.org |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developing Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
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| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Community-Based Organization (CBO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Community Health Development Organisation is a non governmental organisation made up of health professionals who are committed in solving health issues in deprived areas in Ghana and beyond.We offer health education,screening of hepatitis,HIV, TB and other communicable diseases and treatment. We also focus on school childred in communities and villages. Our mission is to promote and carry out health programs. A pilot and preliminary investigations indicate that a lot of people are infected with TB bacterials in villages and communities who have limited access to health facilities and we have taken it upon ourselves to go to these communities with our medical team and screen them and give medications where possible. We aso work with a well established Laboratory called Anezka Laboratory services. |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Delivery of health services and care |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Attendance at a TB related event |
| 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: | Resource mobilization |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | Ghana |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: | No |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: | |
| We are currently planning to go outreach to screen and and treat infected people to support the TB control programm. | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Ghana |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Ghana |
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-HIV: It is also planned to investigate HIV related to TB to support the Global plan. Laboratory Strengthening: we are planning to go for screening in various communities in Ghana to screen and give good laboratory diagnostics to support the Global Plan to Stop TB New Diagnostics: We are plannig to screen new patients with TB and document it to support the program New TB Drugs: We will administer drugs to newly positive patients who have limited acess to health facilities. New TB Vaccines: We will take up vaccination activities to support the Global plan Fundamental Research: We are ready to take up any fundamental Research task when given the opportunity to help the Global paln |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | April 10, 2013 |
| Last updated: | May 13, 2013 |