"Take Charge Against TB" project in India: empowering health workers and youth to fight TB

Tuberculosis is a persistent public health challenge in India. Frontline health care workers play a big part in TB screening and referral: in some areas of India, they serve as the initial point of care for two-thirds of individuals with TB symptoms. The “Take Charge Against TB” project, a public health initiative of Johnson & Johnson in collaboration with PATH and TB Alert India (TBAI), and in strategic partnership with India’s National TB Elimination Programme, employed a powerful dual activation strategy to empower both frontline health care workers and youth volunteers to tackle TB underdiagnosis in urban India’s poor communities. The project provided nearly 1,600 frontline health care workers with tailored training on TB screening, stigma reduction, and community trust, and mobilized 279 youth volunteers as champions of change. Overall, the initiative reached 16 million people across Delhi, Hyderabad, and Pune, drove 1.8 million self-screenings, and linked nearly 54,000 individuals to free testing, demonstrating how community-driven solutions can accelerate early diagnosis and care. Learn how “Take Charge Against TB” is creating a model for TB-free urban communities and scaling up across India: https://lnkd.in/gsEKrhjp Article by: Deepak Balasubramanian, Raghavan Parthasarathy, Shruti, Jessica Farley, and Pranati Jha #TBMuktBharat #EndTB