Social Assessment and Support to TB Control, China

LATH helped the National TB Control Programme in China design and pilot action plans to train staff in, and use, social assessment techniques in TB control to increase use, access to and quality of TB services for the poor.

The project rolled out this use of social assessment into four poor provinces of China. Based on the results of the social assessments, strategy adjustments were made in order to achieve the project’s goal in contributing to the control of the TB epidemic. In the design phase of this programme, LATH consultants developed a strategy for incorporating social assessments within the National TB Control Project.

The strategy focused on the under-detection of TB cases, particularly in rural populations. A pilot of the social assessment was conducted in Inner Mongolia, and is currently being rolled out to 4 poor provinces characterised by high incidence of TB and a low detection rate.

client DFID.