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| Name: | Basic Health Foundation |
| Street 1: | Suite 7 Joem Plaza, Inside Mobil Filling , Beside Mr Biggs |
| Street 2: | Dutse First Gate, Dutse Alhaji |
| City: | FCT Abuja |
| Province: | Abuja |
| Post Code: | 234 |
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Phone: | +2348168168720 |
| Organization Email: | info@basichealthfoundation.org |
| Web Site: | http://www.basichealthfoundation.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: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| 1-Our goal is to identify specific preventable and treatable illnesses in each community and partner with the community to come up with economically viable, culturally appropriate solutions. There will be a strong emphasis on prevention, community based health education, early diagnosis and treatment. There will be a strong emphasis on the most vulnerable members of each community. 2-There is an urgent need to recognize that prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB in children are important for public health as well as for ensuring the individual right of the child to health. Children suffer severe TB related illness that contributes significantly to the overall burden of TB and to overall child mortality. 3-ADDRESSING AND PREVENTING CHILDHOOD TB |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy Delivery of health services and care |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 51 - 99 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 51 - 99 |
| 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: | Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | Nigeria |
| 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: | |
| Prevention and Advocacy: Prevention: Approaches include prevention of infection through improved TB control and prevention from infection to disease. Advocacy & Communication Children with TB are a particularly vulnerable population. The main public health messages that address TB relate to reducing the infectiousness of TB and do not relate to the impact of TB disease on children. Advocacy on behalf of children such as the recent “Call to Action” is critical for improved management and increased attention by partnership with National TB Control plan. |
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Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Nigeria |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Nigeria |
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 plan to contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by: increasing awarness to general population and stakeholders about TB and MDR-TB,creating a network of advocates Nationally and Internationally, persuading MDR-TB and TB patients to speak about their experience and their problems, creating a volunteers network in order to provide support to TB patients to be adherent to treatment and to support their families thrugh education, information, increasing the number or NGO members. Drug-Resistant TB: Our organization plan to contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by:mapping MDR-TB patients' needs and, with partners' help,to create a low draft in order to protect patients right to treatment, social protection and social inclusion, creating a data base with all MDR-TB patients in order to help NTP by covering social and psychological aspects during and after TB treatment, providing legal advise to TB patients, providing psycological support and therapy services to MDR-TB patients, providing trainings to medical staff in order to manage patients with addictions, psychiatric problems, to motivate patients to be adherent to treatment using motivational interview. TB-HIV: Our organization plan to contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by: making partnership with HIV/SIDA patients' NGO's in order to help HIV patients to cope with TB, counselling TB patients to do HIV tests, educating them, helping them to be social included. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | January 31, 2014 |
| Last updated: | February 18, 2014 |