India • Global Health, social impact
- Sector: Global Health, social impact
- Headquarters Country: India
- Operating Regions: India
- Founders: Shelly batra
- Problem Identified: High cost for treatment of tb for poor and rural class of the country and the world
- Solution Offered: an international treatment standard launched by the World Health Organization where for 6-9 months patients must swallow each dose in the presence of a trained DOTS provider daily. To facilitate access, Operation ASHA runs a network of TB treatment centres within existing neighbourhoods – shops, homes, temples and clinics – chosen strategically to ensure easy access and inconspicuous enough for them to avoid the stigma of being identified as TB patients.
- Social Impact: OpASHa's e-Compliance Initiative (a portable biometric identification system) ensures rigorous tracking of every dose by taking the patient’s fingerprint/iris scan at the time of every dose. This has reduced drop-out rates to 3%. Operation ASHA has had an 89% success rate and lowered the cost of treatment by 32 times compared to other programmes. It is working in several states across India and is treating 17% of entire Cambodia's TB patients. This model has been replicated in Uganda, Kenya, Peru, Dominican Republic, Tanzania and Afghanistan. It has distributed more than 570,000 painkillers and several thousand antacids, anti-emetics, iron tablets, calcium tablets, condoms, oral rehydration salt sachets, packets of protein supplements, 5 tonnes of food, and 4,000 blankets free of charge.
- Website: https://www.opasha.org/
- Score: 8 Pottery enterprise supporting craft tradition
