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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | ExplainTB |
| Street 1: | Research Center Borstel |
| Street 2: | Center for Clinical Studies, PA 35 |
| City: | Borstel |
| Province: | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Post Code: | 23845 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Phone: | +49-4537-188-8080 |
| Organization Email: | contact@explaintb.org |
| Web Site: | http://www.explaintb.org |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developed Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | No |
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| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| ExplainTB provides multilingual educational videos and written material for tuberculosis patients and their relatives. All material is available 24 hours a day for free on www.explaintb.org Educational videos in 16 languages can be accessed by scanning a QR-code from a poster that is available for download. Additionally, an app for smartphones is available for free providing audio-visual education in 25 languages. |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy |
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: | 0 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 100 + |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Other partners |
| 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: | Network with other partners |
| 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: | |
| About 50% of TB patients in Western Europe are migrants. Many of them are illiterates or children. They can't be reached by conventional educational material due to the language barrier. ExplainTB tries to overcome this language barrier by making educational videos available at the point of care in the patient's mother tongue. |
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Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Germany |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Albania Argentina Armenia Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Canada Chile Croatia Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Gambia Georgia Germany Greece Hungary India Iran (Islamic Republic of) Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Malaysia Namibia Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Republic of Serbia Romania Russian Federation Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Sweden Switzerland The Former Yugoslav Rep of Macedonia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Uzbekistan |
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: The educational material includes chapters on therapy, compliance and the patient's contribution towards cure. Drug-Resistant TB: The educational material includes information on drug resistant tuberculosis and it's treatment strategy. TB-HIV: The educational material includes information on HIV testing and therapy. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: None to declare. | |
| Application date: | January 3, 2014 |
| Last updated: | February 18, 2014 |