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Resource | Guidelines,
Progress in reducing the tuberculosis (TB) burden in the Western Pacific Region has been remarkable, with millions of lives saved and drastic reductions in prevalence and mortality in the past two decades. Throughout the Region, national tuberculosis programmes (NTPs) have expanded the basic TB services package and centred its focus on the most cost-effective, high-impact interventions at little or no cost to patients. Furthermore, accurate epidemiological information and programmatic evidence have provided a rich base for informed decision-making.
Resource | Publications,
Community voices and leadership in governance, implementation and oversight of Global Fund-supported programs is essential to achieving lasting impact.
Lessons from the Ebola response and the transition to the Sustainable Development Goals, with the specific target of achieving universal health coverage, have spurred the Global Fund to reflect on how people access health services and how countries respond to health crises. Rethinking our approaches to building resilient and sustainable systems for health will be essential in order to maximize equitable access and impact on HIV, TB and malaria.
Resource | Guidelines,
This handbook aims to facilitate the active involvement of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Global Fund/Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Country Coordination Mechanism (GFATM CCM). It outlines basic values and principles, providing practical information and tools which can be adapted to national contexts. It stresses the ongoing importance of PLHIV led communication, coordination and consultation, so that people most affected by the three diseases can continually make their voices heard and weigh in on important issues. The ultimate goal of PLHIV representation on CCMs is to ensure that GFATM financed programs are efficient, impactful and sustainable.
Resource | Guidelines,
The Compendium has been developed as a clear and concise instrument to facilitate the understanding and planning of delivery of high-quality care for everybody affected by TB. It incorporates all recent policy guidance from WHO; follows the care pathway of persons with signs or symptoms of TB in seeking diagnosis, treatment and care; and includes key algorithms and cross-cutting elements that are essential to a patient-centered approach in the cascade of TB care.
Resource | Fact Sheets,
Concerted and integrated efforts are needed to prevent and address both TB and TB-HIV burden in the region.
2 out of 3 TB infections globally are in Asia and the Pacific and 60% of MDR-TB burden is in this region. Globally, Asia and the Pacific is the home for 13% of PLHIV but 20% of TB-HIV co-infections are in this region. Systematic collaboration between TB-HIV programmes will save lives and improve the quality of life of people living with and affected by HIV and TB.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
Tuberculosis country profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database.
Resource | Publications,
In 2017, 3.6 million of the estimated 10 million people with TB worldwide were “missed” by national TB programmes (NTPs). Two thirds of them are thought to access TB treatment of questionable quality from public and private providers who are not engaged by the NTP. The quality of care provided in these settings is often not known or substandard. Closing these gaps and ensuring patient-centred care imply that quality-assured and affordable TB services must be made available wherever people choose to seek care.
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The WHO Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement provides global oversight to ensure that assessments of progress towards ending TB at global, regional and country levels are as rigorous, robust and consensus based as possible. The Task Force supports countries to improve the analysis and use of TB data for policy, planning and programmatic action, and is committed to the ongoing improvement of model-based policy analysis as a tool for strategic planning and budgeting.
This document aims to provide concrete, pragmatic guidance for how TB modelling and related technical assistance is undertaken to support country decision-making. The target audience for this document are the participants and stakeholders in country-level TB modelling efforts, including the individuals who build and apply models; policy-makers, technical experts and other members of the TB community; international funding and technical partners; and individuals and organizations engaged in supporting TB policy-making.
Resource | Publications,
Since 2001, WHO and its partners have offered support on engaging private providers for TB prevention and care, the need for which has been recognized in global TB strategies since 2006. Since 2002, the Public Private Mix Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership (formerly a sub-group of the DOTS Expansion Working Group) has held 13 global meetings on the subject. Several WHO guidance documents have been issued and a number of major reviews of the literature have been published (1–5). While considerable experience has been gained in a wide range of health market contexts, and some countries have made more sustained progress than others, overall engagement of private providers remains weak considering the important role of private providers in many high-burden countries. An essential premise of this document is that global and national goals in TB cannot be achieved unless private providers are engaged on a scale commensurate with their role in health systems.
In this context, the purpose of the landscape analysis is ultimately to facilitate improved engagement of private providers, thereby contributing to universal access to quality and affordable TB care and the end of the TB epidemic. It focuses on the role of private for-profit providers and on specific challenges and experiences in engaging them for TB prevention and care.
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This document contains a series of desk reviews for the eight ENGAGE-TB priority countries supported by the Global Fund (DRC, Kenya, Indonesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania). The document provides a situation assessment and gap analysis about the state of community based TB activities in these countries. The focus on these eight countries was justified by the high prevalence of TB and the very high number of missed/unreported cases. To develop the profiles, Global Fund applications, national TB strategic plans and reports, programme review reports, relevant national guidelines and websites of the community stakeholders were examined.