Community action against TB in Timor-Leste

IOM Dili April 18 2019

Cecilia MCINTOSH, IOM Dili.

UN Agencies in Timor-Leste are working with the Ministry of Health to end TB through community screening with people on the move – such as university and school students; police and defence forces;  border communities;  and other highly mobile populations including agricultural workers, market vendors, bus and truck drivers.

MATATA, TIMOR-LESTE, 31 JULY 2018 – Lurdes Gonçalves stands before her quiet fifth-grade class with a knowing smile on her face. “We’ve been sitting too long,” she announces, as she surveys the sleepy faces before her. “It’s time for a game.”

The children obligingly stand to follow Lurdes through a rapid-fire round of a sing-song game involving complicated arm movements and repeated rhyming phrases, leaving them breathless and giggling after just a few short minutes. Then, the class continues, with her newly attentive listeners poring earnestly over their reading books. 

As CEO of Telkomcel Timor-Leste, Yogi Rizkian Bahar signed the CEO Statement of Support for the Women’s Empowerment Principles in 2010.

Our [company] culture gives equal opportunity to everyone, both men and women.

40 per cent of the managers are women in our company and they have made an outstanding contribution to the company. For instance, we have a colleague, Joana. She is a manager of our Enterprise and Whole Sales Department, and more than 50 per cent of revenue is coming from that Department. This shows us that women fit and have great achievements in high-level positions.

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On the 18th of June 2018, UNFPA conducted an Intra-partum and Immediate Post-partum care training in collaboration with the National Health Institute (INS) of the Ministry of Health (MoH), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Guido Valdares National Hospital Timor-Leste, John Snow International (JSI), and Health Alliance International (HAI).