The Stop Tuberculosis Partnership
The stop Tuberculosis (TB) partnership is a network of international organizations, countries, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, public and private sector donors, and individuals dedicated to the elimination of tuberculosis as a publi...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/800431468148515795/The-stop-tuberculosis-partnership http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28058 |
| Summary: | The stop Tuberculosis (TB) partnership
is a network of international organizations, countries,
governmental and nongovernmental organizations, public and
private sector donors, and individuals dedicated to the
elimination of tuberculosis as a public health problem. The
partnership is a loose coalition of partners working to
elevate action on tuberculosis, one of the leading causes of
death from infectious disease, on the global agenda. The
stop TB partnership was formally established in 2001, as it
became clear to the international community that the initial
targets set for TB control in 1991.The specific objectives
for which the partnership has been accountable have evolved
somewhat since 2001, and have recently been stated most
clearly in the global plan to stop TB, 2006-2015. Since the
present Global Program Review (GPR) covers the period from
the initiation of the program to the present, it has
reviewed the achievements of the stop TB partnership against
four objectives which have been synthesized from core
partnership documents going back to 2001, namely: 1) to
expand the Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS)
strategy so that all people have access to effective
diagnosis and treatment; 2) to develop and scale-up
effective responses to the emerging challenges of drug
resistance and HIV-related TB; 3) to improve and expand
tools available for TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention;
and 4) to strengthen the overall global partnership to stop
TB so that proven TB-control strategies are effectively applied. |
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