The Red Cross Red Crescent

in

Tuberculosis control

Lasha Goguadze

Senior Health Officer, Health and Care Department

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

“The Movement" is a term covering two international institutions with

headquarters in Geneva and National Societies in 185 countries.

The two institutions are the International Committee of the Red Cross

(ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies (the International Federation). The National

Societies comprise most of the more than 97 million Red

Cross workers - the world's biggest volunteer force.

“Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are

showing that millions of sick people can be reached

and cured, in poor or remote settings. We believe

such involvement from civil society is essential if

we are to make inroads in tackling Tuberculosis“

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Health Education

Identifying

vulnerable

groups

Diagnosis

and

Treatment

Compliance

Monitoring

Social/Nutritional

Support

Education families +

patients

Authorities

+

Red Cross

Red Crescent

Authorities

+

Technical Partners

Authorities

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Red Cross

Red Crescent

Case finding Clinical care Follow-upRole of the Red Cross/Red Crescent in TB (and MDR TB) Control

�� FillFill a gap in a gap in TuberculosisTuberculosis ControlControl

�� Target the Target the mostmost vulnerablevulnerable in the in the communitycommunity

�� WorkingWorking togethertogether withwith affectedaffected communitycommunity

�� Working together with Lilly MDR TB Working together with Lilly MDR TB PartnersPartners

Who are Red Cross and Red Crescent Care - givers

→Red Cross / Red Crescen“Family Health”

Nurses

→ volunteers

� Provide DOT combined with social support

� Case finding, trace defaulters

� Support groups

� Legal Aid

� Fight against stigma

� Addressing TB/HIV

RC/RC serves more than 20,000 most vulnerable

affected by TB on a daily basis – 400 by MDR TB

� Russian Federation

� Bulgaria

� Romania (Lilly)

� Myanmar

� South Africa (Lilly)

� Serbia

� Macedonia

� Afghanistan

� Kenya

� Namibia

� Mozambique

� Zimbabwe

� Central-Asia

� Kazahstan (Lilly)

� Kyrgyzstan

� Tajikistan

� Turkmenistan

� Uzbekistan (Lilly)

� Armenia

� Azerbaijan

� Moldova

� Ukraine

� Belarus