Market Based Partnership for Health initiative for TB Control and Care :

This project is implemented in four districts of Karnataka, India to create and expand a pool of private sector on a large scale to adopt DOTS referral, diagnosis and treatment policies through a Social Franchising model. The project also has a high intensity community outreach model in which the target group will be mobilized to substantially reduce gaps in knowledge, improve their ability to access TB services and successfully adhere to treatment as mandated by the protocols. A systematic collaborative sustainability plan is designed with RNTCP for eventual transition to government of this PPM model.

This project came to an end this April-2012 in four districts of Karnataka.