unite to act

The Unite to ACT (UTA) project was designed to enhance and amplify community engagement in Tuberculosis (TB) in India, by actively engaging TB-affected communities, i.e people with TB, TB survivors and their families. This is in keeping with India’s National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination (2020-25), which calls for the meaningful engagement of communities and the provision of person-centred care and support to all people with TB. 

Central to the UTA project was the training, engagement and empowerment of TB affected communities, recognising the pivotal role they could play in providing peer support, improving awareness on TB, reducing stigma, linking communities to TB services, and advocating with decision-makers. The project helped translate into action the National TB Elimination Programme’s (NTEP) vision of enabling the active participation of communities and not merely as ‘passive recipients of care’.