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India TB, HIV and Malaria Advocates with Global Fund Team
TB, HIV and Malaria Advocates Come Together to Demand a Fully Funded Global Fund
Meeting with Indian TB, HIV and Malaria Advocates
Focus Group Discussion with Community Members in India
Focus Group Discussion with Community Members and Tiara Pakasi, NTP Manager Indonesia
Focus Group Discussion with Community Members in Kenya
TB Civil Society Task Force Members at the WHO 2022 Town Hall
CEO,GCTA at the State Level Capacity Building Workshop for TB Champions, Delhi, India
India Working Group for Health Advocacy Members with Brian Heath, US Embassy, India
GCTA Board Member Mercy Annapoorani awarded Honorary certificate by M.K. Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India for her work to #EndTB
TB Civil Society Task Force Report Launch 2022
Community Advisory Group Presentation at UNITE4TB Annual Meeting
Launch of India Investment Case
Blessina Kumar, CEO, GCTA with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO
WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group Meeting for Tuberculosis
Blessina Kumar, CEO, GCTA at a panel discussion with Veronika von Messling, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, Peter Kim DAIDS, NIH, Grania Brigden, GlobalFund and Tereza Kasaeva, WHO
How to Protect Ourselves from TB - Advocacy roadmap TB Preventive Treatment Through Community Engagement : Virtual and In-person Workshop
Launch of How to Protect Ourselves from TB Community Friendly Brochure on TB Preventive Therapy in 9 Languages
Launch of Men and Stigma Book at the 50th Union Conference
Launch of Transforming the TB Response - Capacity Building of Communities to be Change Agents Training Manual at the 50th Union Conference
Capacity Building Workshop for TB Survivors in India
Capacity Building Workshop in Dili, Timor-Leste organized in collaboration with WHO Timor-Leste Country Office
Civil Society Task Force with Director General WHO Dr.Tedros at the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group Meeting June, 2019
CEO, GCTA at the Meeting of the Regional Stakeholder's Consultation on Tools for Community Engagement for MDR-TB Services (Dhaka,Bangladesh)
CEO,GCTA at the Integrating Mental Health Services into Standard of TB Care Meeting
TB-HIV-and-Malaria-Activists-Training-on-Domestic-Financing-in-India
Launch of GCTA Human Rights Policy Brief by Dr. Tedros
GCTA launches book on Women and Stigma at the UN Interactive Civil Society Hearing in New York - June 2018
Capacity-Building Workshop for TB Advocates in North-East India
Civil Society Advisory Group with Dr Tedros Adhanom, Director General-WHO, at the Global Ministerial Conference - November 2017
GCTA Board Member Elvi Siahaan at the Launch of TB Stigma Assessment Tool and Right to Breathe Training Manual
GCTA Facilitated the Formation of Touched by TB - India’s First National Coalition of People Affected by TB – At the 2 nd National Meeting in July, 2017
Members of Civil Society and Communities interact with Eric Goosby, United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis - August, 2017
GCTA Community
GCTA Community
GCTA Community

GCTA Structure

The Global Coalition of TB Advocates(GCTA) is a global platform of people affected by TB that amplifies community engagement and strengthens the capacity of TB activists at all levels. We envision a world free of Tuberculosis and work towards making this a reality.

Our Mission

To ensure accountability in global TB goals through coalition building, community-led monitoring, advocacy and capacity building

Our Structure
The Global Coalition of TB Advocates is governed at the global level by a CEO and a Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is comprised of one representative from each of our four global regions – Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The GCTA is also represented through four Regional Focal Points in each of the regions. Our Regional Focal Points serve as our points of contact for our regional work and presence.

The GCTA Secretariat is comprised of the CEO,the Program Officer and the Communications Officer, and is based in New Delhi, India.