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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | Africa Coalition on TB |
| Street 1: | LG DTD, legon avenue shiashie accra |
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| City: | Accra |
| Province: | Greater Accra |
| Post Code: | GA-335-8912 |
| Country: | Ghana |
| Phone: | +233244616699 |
| Organization Email: | africa.coalition.tb@gmail.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.actafrique.org |
| Other Online Presence: | @Africatbco |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | None |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
| If yes, please enter your registration number: | CG096302017 |
| Organization Type - Primary: | Partnership |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Regional Stop TB Partnership |
| Organization Description: | |
| ACT Vision is “A TB-free Africa” Mission The Africa Coalition on TB (ACT!) values and consolidates the power within communities throughout Africa to end the injustice of TB, a curable disease from which millions of our people suffer and die each year. To enable infected and affected communities to advocate for universal access to TB services by developing and enhancing advocacy skills, knowledge, tools, and opportunities to contribute to and hold all stakeholders accountable for achieving a TB-free Africa. • CSOs, Communities and Stakeholders Dialogue on Regional TB Response, Advocacy priorities and HLM targets monitoring • Continue to support coordination and engagement of CSOs and communities in the region • Support Country Dialogues towards NSP development and TB Funding Request to the Global Fund • Collaboration with Global TB Caucus (Advocacy to parliamentarians on domestic financing) • Collaboration with African Union, Union Africa Region • Collaboration with Stop TB Partnership to further disseminate CRG-SI tools • World TB Day • World AIDS Day and other related health days advocacy opportunities • Regional consultation on Domestic Resource Mobilization to End TB in Africa • Advocacy on WHO AFRO rGLC and adoption of new DR-TB regimens • Engagement with first ladies of Africa to increase awareness and mobilize resources for TB at the regional and national level. |
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| Do you know about the UNHLM declaration: | Yes |
Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy Civil Society and Community Engagement Delivery of health services and care Engaging political leaders and ensuring inclusive leadership Funding, including innovative and optimized approach to funding TB Care Research and Development Technical Assistance Working on Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Working on Key Populations related to TB |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | Unknown |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| 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: | Afro Global Alliance |
| 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: | |
| ACT is a regional network working in the African region especially the anglophone countries in Africa | |
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) |
Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Congo Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kiribati Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Sudan Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe |
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: ACT has supported several advocacy activities in the african region, during the UN HLM, ACT coordinated CSOs and Communities input into the HLM and also the UHC HLM. TB-HIV: Collaboration with GNP+ to do joint planning meetings on advocacy priorities Research: Supporting Operational research to inform implementation around finding the missing people and patient centered appraoch |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | February 18, 2020 |
| Last updated: | April 24, 2024 |