Update on SBCC Activities of Challenge TB Bangladesh

BACKGROUND Challenge TB (CTB) is one of the main global mechanisms for implementing USAID’s TB strategy In Bangladesh, this project is being implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Interactive Research and Development (IRD) and KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) CTB’s goal in Bangladesh is to reduce morbidity, mortality, and transmission until TB is no longer a public health concern CTB is a technical assistance project, providing support to the NTP to strengthen its capacity in terms of planning, implementation, coordination, supervision, monitoring and recording and reporting of the TB program in Bangladesh

Communication Goal To reduce the TB burden by engaging communities and TB patients in improving early health seeking behavior and increase of TB case finding, and by providing patient centered quality TB services to achieve 90 percent successful treatment

Strategic Objectives Promote early health care seeking behavior (and active community engagement) Intensify case finding & early diagnosis at public and private health facilities Enhance DS and DR TB patient’s adherence to treatment Engage patients and communities to reduce TB transmission at community level by supporting TB patients Decrease stigma around TB Strengthen Partners collaboration under NTPs leadership

CTB Communication Product Sl # Name of product Target Audiences Purpose 1 Drug Sensitive TB Flash Card DOT providers, Patients To perform the proper patient counseling 2 Drug Resistant TB Flash Card DOT providers, Patient 3 Child TB Poster Attendants of the patients of the hospitals Make awareness of Child TB 4 TB Diabetes Poster Diabetic and TB Patients, Service Providers To aware the diabetic patients about TB 5 Enter-educative drama on TB in workplace Factory workers and union leaders To aware people about TB 6 Drama on TB Diabetes Comorbidity Diabetic and TB Patients, Service provider 7 Poster for Workplace workers Factory Workers and Union Leaders

Sl # Name of product Target Audiences Purpose 8 IPT Leaflet and Poster Parents of Under 5 children To prevent TB from under 5 children 10 Child TB Animation Video Parents attending in the hospital outdoor Screening of the children to detect TB 11 Handbook on TB for Medical Students and Physicians Medical Students and Physicians To provide proper knowledge on TB control program 12 Fact Sheet on Zero TB Cities Initiative People who work in TB sector, stakeholders To promote the Zero TB Cities Initiative 13 AV of the ZTBCI Launching event Donor, Stakeholders, Patients To share the glimpse of the ZTBCI event and the Zero TB Cities Declaration

Sl # Name of product Target Audiences Purpose 23 ISTC Leaflet Medical professionals 24 Job Aid on Laboratory Algorithm Service Provider & Lab Technician For better performance 25 Job Aid on Second Line LPA 26 Leaflet specially focused on TB on May Day Factory workers, Union Leaders To aware people about TB 27 Manual for DOT Providers MDR DOT providers & Health workers To have proper knowledge about DR TB patient management 28

SBCC Materials Poster for Workplace workers to orient Lo

Poster- TB DM Comorbidity SBCC Materials ISTC Leaflet Poster- TB DM Comorbidity

JOB Aid-Second line LPA SBCC Materials JOB Aid-Second line LPA Child TB Poster Child TB Animation Video

Approval Process MDR Committee IEC Technical Committee   MDR Committee IEC Technical Committee Directorate General of Health ACSM National Committee MDR WG TB/HIV WG ACSM WG Research WG Child TB WG PPM WG National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) Research Child TB PPM

Priority of This Year We will work in coordination with Ujjiban project (USAID support project) and Dhaka South City Corporation for SBCC activities

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