|
About LAMB
| LAMB has been running community health programmes in this area of Bangladesh since 1978 and is well accepted by the community. The organisation started its Tuberculosis (TB) treatment programme in 1985 by establishing a TB clinic at the Out Patient department (OPD) of the Hospital. |
| |
|
LAMB is based in a rural area within Dinajpur District in the North-West part of Bangladesh, and due to their excellent TB work they have been approved by the Government’s National TB Programme to implement TB control work in rural Unions (A Union is a local government sub-division of a Thana, which is a sub-division of a district) within 3 Thanas of Dinajpur & 1 Thana of Nilphamari District.
Click here to see a map of Dinajpur District
Click here to see a map of Nilphamari District |
| |
|
 By providing effective treatment for TB, together with health education and preventive medicine, TB Alert and LAMB aim to not only improve levels of health, but in so doing alleviate poverty by helping people to stay healthy and thus work and live productively. If the rural population of Bangladesh have access to health care facilities and can work, they are much less likely to feel the need to move into the cities such as Dhaka, which can lead to family break-up, loss of community, increased pressure on urban services and even greater poverty.
|
Read a patient’s story
Read what Veronica White (member of TB Alert Advisory Board and Research Respiratory Physician, St.Barts Hospital, London) had to say about the LAMB project
Learn about Women in Bangladesh with regards to TB and health
|
