March 2006 to June 2007

Coverage: Four districts in two provinces i.e. Punjab: Faisalabad and Bahawalpur; NWFP: Abbotabad and Mansehra

Activities:

• Enhance the capacity of the district offices and the facilities to effectively plan, implement and monitor DOTS activities
• Training of care providers and managers, procurement and logistic support, monitoring and supervision, data management strengthening
• Supplementing the equipment and material supplies as well as provide training and onsite technical support to the staff delivering TB care at the facilities
• Screening of TB suspects and initiation of TB cases registration and examination
• Enabling/supporting four key agents (school teachers, community health workers, local religious leaders and local) to mobilize communities in proposed districts

Outputs:

• 80 managers oriented on DOTS and plans prepared for implementing DOTS activities in hospitals
• 460 doctors trained on case management, 460 Paramedics-1 training as DOTS facilitator and 195 Paramedics-2 training
• 113 laboratory technicians training on AFB microscopy and 3500 lady health workers training on providing treatment support
• 6235 smear +ive Cases detected and 4554 TS reported
• Enabled 400 school teachers to mainstream TB control in their respective institutions, trained 3500 community health workers, 200 local religious leaders and 40 local journalists.