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Spiro is stopping TB in its tracks.

We're bringing tuberculosis screening and prevention to people in Pakistan and beyond.

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Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease, cutting short the lives of of 1.25 million people annually and disproportionately affecting children.

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But TB is preventable and curable - and millions of people exposed to TB can be protected with right care.

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​People living in the same household as someone with TB are at particularly high risk of contracting TB. They should get access to TB screening:

  • Those living with active TB should receive treatment

  • Those without should be offered as short course of potentially life-saving TB preventive treatment called "TPT" that costs as little as $3

But we’re still failing millions of people around the world. 4 out of every 5 people who need TB preventative treatment never receive it.

Spiro innovates to bring services to households:

IDENTIFY

SCREEN

TREAT

  • Identify families exposed to TB

  • Screen them for TB

  • Treat those at risk with preventive medicine

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We focus on children under 5 years old as they are at particularly high risk.

 

Our programs are exceptionally cost-effective, meaning we get help as many people as we can on lean budgets.

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Spiro's first programs operate in Pakistan​ - the country with the fifth highest TB burden in the world.

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​While Pakistan has made major progress, there is still a long way to go to ensure gets the preventive treatment they need.

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Spiro aims to support the national and provincial TB programs in Pakistan to meet ambitious targets for preventive treatment

Join us

Be part of the solution

Spiro is a project of Charity Entrepreneurship operating through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund, Inc. (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178, ppf.org/pp), a Texas nonprofit corporation with federal tax-exempt status as a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Spiro qualify as tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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