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Annual Report 2023 The Civil Coalition for TB Advocacy and Treatment
Adherence

Time period
Funder
February 2022 to December 2022
Blossom Trust and Stop TB Partnership

Key Activities:
• Carried out literature review to understand health seeking behaviour and barriers to early diagnosis and initia-
tion of treatment among TB survivors and patients in southern districts of Tamil Nadu (Madurai, Virudhunagar
and Ramnathapuram)
• Prepared questionnaire based on the literature review and visited the field to pilot test the questionnaire
• Finalised tool kit was built in the Kobo TOOL KIT (data collection tool) and tested the tool kit in the field
• Collected data was analysed by the PAC team and the final report was prepared and submitted to Blossom Trust.

“ Extensive field visit and interaction with various stakeholders during the study period

provided necessary information to develop the questionnaire and conduct the survey
in a timely manner.”
- Dr Surya Srinivasan
Team Lead

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