Description
On October, 2024, over 25 participants from all over the globe came together at the Stop TB Partnership headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to join a stigma hackathon. Hackathons, originating in the world of technology, are geared to intensify brainstorming amongst people who arrive a common problem from a diversity of angles, and produce new and disruptive approaches to tackling that problem.
Accordingly, survivors of TB, students, journalists, artists, innovators, academics and health professionals, among others, worked in small groups over two intense days, in friendly competition, to develop “out of the box” ideas to end TB stigma. From SSHIFTB, Amrita Daftary was excited to work with Paulina Siniatkina (TB survivor and advocate, see picture), Kinz-el-Eman (Dopasi Foundation) and James Malar (Stop TB Partnership). Read more about the cutting edge propositions generated at the “Innovation to End TB Stigma” hackathon here.

Amrita and Paulina are brainstorming ways to free people with TB from stigma and infection control restrictions.
Geographies
Switzerland