Jitendra Dwivedi, Secretary of ABF, sharing on the enormous benefits of engaging communities and rolling out Patients' Charter for TB Care, to increase TB case detection. Jitendra had mobilized TB patients to advocate for a DOTS clinic in their village, so that patients don't have to walk for 5 kilometers to take their dose. Hindustan Times covered it as a success story in 2008. Power of community and difference community can bring to existing programmes - People who have experienced tuberculosis (TB) or their family members interact among themselves - sharing their own strengths on how they dealt with the challenge and one of the participants in a medical expert who deals with tubercular complications of lungs (chronic empyema thoracis) to listen, learn from community members, and share his perspective as well. It was organized with full support of Abhinav Bharat Foundation (ABF), Asha Parivar, CNS Stop-TB Initiative, and others...