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Kotra Village,
50 km from Dehra Dun, UTTARANCHAL
 DOTS
provider: Sangita, 24 years old.
Sangita’s wish is to serve her community. She has been
a DOTS provider for four months and currently has four patients
on treatment. She knew about TB before her training, as she
has seen a lot of publicity on TV and one of her close friends
has suffered from the disease.
So far she has not had any problems. She is not frightened
of getting TB and she suffers no stigma in the community –
in fact she is appreciated for the work she does.
To organise her time between teaching and college, the patients
come to see her early in the morning or in the evening. There
has been a lot of awareness-raising in the district and people
are aware of TB. She covers a population of about 800 people
in her village. Her father, a retired army man, is very proud
of her. Her younger sister would love to follow in her footsteps
and become a DOTS provider.
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Children returning home from school at Kotra Village, 50 km
from Dehra Dun. |
Children returning home from school at Kotra Village, 50 km
from Dehra Dun. |
Children returning home from school at Kotra Village, 50 km
from Dehra Dun. |
Twenty-four year old Sangita, a DOTS provider in Kotra Village,
50 km from Dehra Dun. |
Sangita with two of her TB patients in Kotra Village, 50 km
from Dehra Dun. |
Sangita with two of her TB patients in Kotra Village, 50 km
from Dehra Dun. |
Sangita’s parents working in the family corn field in
front of their house in Kotra village. |
Sangita’s parents working in the family corn field in
front of their house in Kotra village. |
A TB patient leaves the home of Sangita, her DOTS provider. |
Near Kotra Village, at the foot of the Himalayas, 50 km from
Dehra Dun. |
A farmer checks his rice fields at the end of the day near Kotra
Village, at the foot of the Himalayas, 50 km from Dehra Dun. |
A farmer checks his rice fields at the end of the day near Kotra
Village, at the foot of the Himalayas, 50 km from Dehra Dun. |
Farmers on their way home from the rice fields at the end of
the day, near Kotra Village, at the foot of the Himalayas, 50
km from Dehra Dun. |
A farmer loads his bicycle with rice on his way home from the
paddy fields at the end of the day, near Kotra Village, at the
foot of the Himalayas, 50 km from Dehra Dun. |
On the way home at the end of the day, near Kotra Village, at
the foot of the Himalayas, 50 km from Dehra Dun. |
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INDIA | | | Total Funding Request: | $747,179,607 | | Approved Maximum*: | $491,587,591 | | * total Approved Funding for Phase 1 & Phase 2 |
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