TB: May 2013

Tuberculosis Prevention in Youth

The main idea: The main idea of the projects is to raise teenagers’ awareness about the Tuberculosis (TB).

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection;Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that kills more than 2 million people a year. Most of these deaths occur in developing countries. The bacterium that usually causes the disease in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The project aims:The Project aims to inform youth about the symptoms of Tuberculosis, ways of its prevention (with main focus on healthy style of life, physical activities and healthy food) and transmission, facilities that ensure the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

The Projects is focused;The Projects is focused at the teenagers from 13 to 18 years.

Duration: Duration of the Project is one year

Expected outcome: Expected outcome are as follows: to reduce the number of TB cases in Georgia, thereby achieving the country’s Millennium Development Goals, detect every case of TB in youth, assure that every case is adequately and completely treated, and prevent transmission of TB in communities.

Resources: The main resources are: educational materials printed in the frames of TB Control Programmes, Guidelines and Strategies on Prevention of TB.

The Project activities are:

• Improving the institutional and operational framework in creating intersectorial coordination mechanisms and monitoring youth policy’s evaluation;

• Develop a national life skills curriculum targeting children, adolescents and youth;

• Support aimed at providing children, adolescents and youth required knowledge and psychosocial skills to protect themselves against drugs, criminality, TB and HIV/AIDS;

• Provide peer education, counseling;

• Raise awareness on TB during mass mobilizations through concerts, festivals…

• Each year sensitize about 10,000 adolescents and young people on TB through organization of mass sports (football, handball, volleyball…).

The Head of the project: Tsisana Iashvili

Email: tsisanaiashvili@gmail.com

Project web site/ blog: tsisanaiashvili.blogspot.com