USAID funding cuts halted tuberculosis (TB) research in Uganda. Training 25 community-based TB research change agents will enable grassroots TB research to be conducted in 5 districts in 5 regions of Uganda. Enabling collection of good qualitative data that is vital for controlling TB. Research findings which will inspire interventions to reverse trend of 90,000 Ugandans annually infected with TB due to insufficient knowledge about the disease and implementation of inappropriate interventions.
Uganda, a high TB burden country whose 45.9 million people are at high risk of contracting TB and dying from this infectious killer disease, but which is preventable and curable. Most afflicted and affected are the poor. There is insufficient qualitative empirical data to enable policy makers to fully appreciate the traumatic suffering and the cost burden TB households bear. Inappropriate interventions are the norm, due to the absence of good quality data, due to under-funding of TB research.
Enable qualitative investigations in 5 districts in 5 regions to generate good quality data, the basis on which suitable and adaptable technologies will be developed to fight TB. Focused on ameliorating crippling cost burdens that TB households bear associated with seeking for TB diagnostic services and with adherence of patients to TB treatment regimes. Proactively design and conduct empirical knowledge and fact-based policy advocacy campaigns for financial relief aid provision to TB indigents.
End TB in Uganda. The expectation is this project will heighten urgency among policy makers to ensure allocation of requisite funding towards the fight against TB. Enabling accessibility of TB diagnostic services at the grassroots, which will reduce costs for poor households seeking TB diagnostic services. Reducing time it takes to confirm TB infection, therefore reducing the rate of spreading TB, consequently, the number of TB patients and households needing financial relief for TB treatment.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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