To achieve India’s goal of TB elimination by 2025, core CRG principles needed to be fully integrated and operationalized at the programme and community levels. There is enhanced understanding and involvement with CRG issues in India, but this needed to translate into operational structures and sustainable solutions, both within the TB programme and within communities. This required an improved understanding of gender issues as well as data-driven approaches among all stakeholders, which this project aimed to achieve. The project tapped into India’s large youth population to give impetus to this TB agenda.



Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health or REACH is an India-based non-profit organisation founded in 1998-99 in Chennai. REACH has evolved over the last 25+ years to become a key partner and leader in the fight against TB in India, working closely with the TB programme and engaging various stakeholders including the private sector, affected communities, industries and the media, among others. REACH’s mandate is to work towards achieving equitable health for all, with a focus on tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases.