History of Work In Nepal

Our work began in 1996 through the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development (NCIHD), University of Leeds, UK (formerly known as Nuffield Institute for Health). The NCIHD and its local professionals jointly realised a need for an organisational home to continue its work in Nepal, as a result HERD was instituted in 2004. We started work in TB control by providing technical assistance to the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) primarily for development and assessment of public-private mix (PPM). Simultaneously, we supported the NTP to explore approaches to providing effective patient-friendly TB care by performing a district-based randomised controlled trial comparing family and community based TB care. In 2005 HERD became a major partner of Communicable disease Research Programme Consortium, COMDIS, and delivering high-quality programme-based operational research (OR) and development.

HERD is a sub recipient (SR) of Global Fund (GF) round 7-TB, supporting the NTP in adoption, and implementation of the Stop TB Strategy and International Standard for TB Care (ISTC). HERD established a Community Health Centre in Kathmandu Valley to deliver basic health services to the urban poor especially slum dwellers, migrants, and factory workers, around 20,000 urban poor have benefited till date.