LEAD (Leveraging, Engaging and Advocating to Disrupt TB Transmission), peri-urban Mumbai team organised a three-day refresher training workshop for the city field officers. These training sessions were organised in the Community Engagement Centre, Bhiwandi, Mumbai between 20th-22nd November 2023.

The primary objectives of the training sessions were to review the progress of 25 City Field Officers (CFOs), discuss the challenges they face and how to address them. The officers’ achievements were also highlighted in the sessions. Additionally, the training focused on various aspects related to TB management and field operations such as correcting Management Information System (MIS) errors, engaging Nikshay Mitra and TB Champion in the project and validating presumptive and TB cases via the Nikshay Portal. An exchange of views on the best documentation practices, improving photo documentation from mobile devices, facilitating UDST or Universal Drugs Susceptible Test and data collection, strategies to track migrants with TB during treatment, upcoming milestones, preventive therapy (TPT), close contact management and engaging with CTO and NTEP teams to address specific issues and challenges was also a part of the sessions.

Project LEAD is being implemented by Human People to People India (HPPI) in collaboration with the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) of India, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., funded by USAID under the Tuberculosis Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA) Programme, to facilitate TB services for the urban ultra-poor.