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Timor Leste (East Timor) is adjacent to Indonesia and is one of the youngest and poorest nations in the world. After a 24 year struggle with Indonesia, Timor Leste gained independence in 2002.
TB is a major public health threat in Timor Leste, with the country having one of the highest burdens in the Asia region. Severe poverty, malnutrition and an under-resourced health service mean that tackling the disease is extremely difficult.
Target TB is working together with Klibur Domin, a Timorese NGO, in Liquisa and Ermera Districts of Timor Leste. Together we aim to reduce the burden of TB by helping detect people with the disease, and link them up and support them through treatment.
We support the training of community volunteers and local nurses, assisting them in delivering community health education and providing the best care possible for people with TB in remote communities that otherwise have limited or no access to government healthcare facilities.
Further, through community outreach activities and referral from other government and NGO health providers, people at risk or suspected of MDR-TB are identified, linked up to appropriate testing services and provided with an opportunity for treatment through this facility.
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Timor-Leste has a population of 1.1 million people, of whom 53% live on less than US$1.25 per day.
Life expectancy in Timor Leste is tragically just 61 years.
Half of the adult population is illiterate.
Our partner, Klibur Domin provides the country’s only treatment facility for Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB.
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