TB Alert Delhi DOTS Project - project completed

Delhi DOTS aims to provide a comprehensive package of TB awareness and treatment to some of the poorest areas of Delhi, including education of the causes and treatment of TB, provision of treatment centres in line with World Health Organisation (WHO), DOTS*. The project aims to engage with the local communities, provide education and help to remove the stigma that is still associated with TB.

* DOTS - Directly Observed Treatment Short-course - read more about this here

5 Treatment centres (Lal Kuan, Ali Nagar, Harkesh Nagar, Shaheen Bagh and Mithapur) have been setup as DOTS centres. Dr Peter Davis, one of TB Alert's Trustees (pictured right) inaugurated the centres, and takes a special interest in the project, helping to monitor progress and offer advice and support. Click here to see the inauguration of Harkesh Nagar Centre

Delhi DOTS currently provides treatment for around 50-60 patients per centre per month. Click here to read about the experiences of some of their patients. (case studies taken 2005) Click here for a map showing where the clinics are.

TB Alert volunteer Kartik Kumar, an A level student from north London went to Delhi with his family in August 2006, and we suggested he visit the project. Read about some of the patients he met here.

Over the past three years, TB Alert has built the infrastructure of DOT volunteers and awareness raising, to the point where the centres could be taken over by the government TB Service. This handover has now taken place and TB Alert has been asked by the goverment to develop similar work in the north of Delhi - read more