Empowering communities to end TB with the ENGAGE-TB approach

Overview

Community engagement is critical to improve the reach and sustainability of interventions related to tuberculosis (TB) and to help end TB. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an innovative approach called ENGAGE-TB to better identify and treat people with TB, by involving previously unengaged non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs). This includes a wide spectrum of community-based organizations working in primary health care, HIV, maternal and child health, education, agriculture and livelihood initiatives.

There has been impressive progress from the implementation of the ENGAGE-TB approach in five focus countries. This document highlights how communities are advancing the response to TB with the support of NGOs and other CSOs, and the impact of these activities on reaching people with TB.