Summary We (Habiba Banu and Roxanne Heston) have launched Spiro, a new TB screening and prevention charity focused on children. Our website is here.We are fundraising $198,000 for our first year. We’re currently reaching out to people in the EA network. So far we have between 20%-50% of our budget promised and fundraising is currently one of the main things we’re focusing on.The major components of our first year budget are co-founder time, country visits, and delivery of a pilot program, which aims to do household-level TB screening and provision of preventative medication.We think that this project has a lot of promise:Tuberculosis has a huge global burden, killing 1.3 million people every year, and is disproportionately neglected and fatal in young children.The evidence for preventative treatment is robust and household programs are promising, yet few high-burden countries have scaled up this intervention.Modeling by Charity Entrepreneurship and by academics indicate that this [...] ---Outline:(02:10) Who are we?(03:26) What are we going to do?(04:12) Why TB?(04:40) Why this intervention?(06:36) Why Spiro?(07:28) Budget(09:21) Learn more(09:36) Donations---
First published:
November 17th, 2023

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/C8ZzjFc7aKT7ihmeK/spiro-new-tb-charity-raising-seed-funds
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