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| Name: | MOI'S BRIDGE COMMUNITY WELFARE ASSOCIATION |
| Street 1: | ELDORET-KITALE ROAD MOI'S BRIDGE TOWNSHIP |
| Street 2: | ELDORET-KITALE ROAD MOI'S BRIDGE TOWNSHIP |
| City: | MOI'S BRIDGE |
| Province: | WESTERN KENYA |
| Post Code: | 30202 |
| Country: | Kenya |
| Phone: | +254723505264 |
| Organization Email: | mocoweso@yahoo.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.mocoweso.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: | |
| MISSION:To provide the most effective prevention and curative healthcare services to the communities. Our interest in tuberculosis is driven by:To strive towards reduction of preventable disease prevalence and incidences of poverty among the vulnerable community members. Our current actions:We are currently implementing programs in the area of Advocacy, Rapid case detection, building community structures for community sustainable health provision, defaulter tracing, capacity building training to CHWS,CHEWs and other drivers. |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| 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: | 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: | |
| We are currently implementing several activities with the NTP collaboration with funding from Global fund to fight TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDs. We have also worked with the community in building community structures for integration of TB preventive activities with funding from STOP TB partnership. In overall we do advocacy and sensitization for TB program at community level. | |
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: We contribute CB-DOTS expansion through capacity building training to Community health workers, Community health extension workers and District health management teams om Nutritional assessment of TB patients, Tb sneering of prisoners, community defaulter mechanisms, Contact tracing with help of care givers. We also conduct advocacy programs on intensive case finding with the CHWS through community meetings at community units as focal points. Through our youth theater group we do sensitization and awareness communication of TB prevention mechanism with the community, this social mobilization aims at increasing the community capacity to confront TB prevention behaviors at an informed point of view. TB-HIV: We conduct activities geared towards prevention of TB/HIV co-infection morbidity and mortality prevalence. We do advocacy and social mobilization alongside these thematic areas to inform PLWHIV of there susceptibility to vulnerability to acquiring TB and how it can be prevented or easily cured through early detection and treatment. Our objective is geared towards prevention of new infection through awareness raising in the community of how it can be squired or cured through early detection. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: We have read the above paraphrase and we here by declare that there exists no conflict of interest in our organization. | |
| Application date: | April 4, 2014 |
| Last updated: | June 19, 2014 |