1. The STOP TB Strategy – 2009 VISION: A TB-free world
GOAL: To dramatically reduce the global burden of TB by 2015 in line with the MDGs and the Stop TB Partnership targets
OBJECTIVES:
Achieve universal access to quality diagnosis and patient-centred treatment
Reduce the human suffering and socioeconomic burden associated with TB
Protect vulnerable populations from TB, TB/HIV and drug-resistant TB
Support development of new tools and enable their timely and effective use
Protect and promote human rights in TB prevention, care and control
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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2. MDG 6, Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of TB by 2015
TARGETS
MDG 6, Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of TB by 2015
Targets linked to the MDGs, endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership:
2015: reduce prevalence of and deaths due to TB by 50%
2050: Eliminate TB as a public health problem
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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3. COMPONENTS Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement
Address TB-HIV, MDR-TB, and the needs of poor and vulnerable populations
Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care
Engage all care providers
Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership
Enable and promote research
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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4. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement
The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement
Secure political commitment, with adequate and sustained financing
Ensure early case detection, and diagnosis through quality-assured bacteriology
Provide standardised treatment with supervision, and patient support
Ensure effective drug supply and management
Monitor and evaluate performance and impact
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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5. The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Address TB-HIV, MDR-TB, and the needs of poor and vulnerable populations
Scale–up collaborative TB/HIV activities
Scale-up prevention and management of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
Address the needs of TB contacts, and poor and vulnerable populations
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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6. Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care
The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care
Help improve health policies, human resources development, financing, supplies, service delivery and information
Strengthen infection control in health services, other congregate settings and households
Upgrade laboratory networks, and implement the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL)
Adapt approaches from other fields and sectors, and foster action on the social determinants of health
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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7. Engage all care providers
The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Engage all care providers
Involve all public, voluntary, corporate and private providers through Public-Private Mix (PPM) approaches
Promote use of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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8. Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership
The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership
Pursue advocacy, communication and social mobilization
Foster community participation in TB care, prevention and health promotion
Promote use of the Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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9. Enable and promote research
The STOP TB Strategy – 2009
Enable and promote research
Conduct programme-based operational research, and introduce new tools into practice
Advocate for and participate in research to develop new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines
So, how to face all these challenges?
This is what the new WHO's Stop TB Strategy is set to do, backed and taken up by the Global Plan that all partners have endorsed and support.
I mentioned all these elements and we need no detail at this stage. But, let me reiterate the essential package:
1. DOTS must be of quality and everywhere. And DOTS, mind you, is not just supervising standard treatment. It is also proper diagnosis, a drug supply that works, and monitoring capacity.
2. we must face TB/HIV and MDR-TB
3. we must actively contribute to strengthening of the health systems
4. we must engage the non-state sector
5. we must empower and engage communities
6. we must promote research allowing new tools to be developed more quickly and put into policy and practice immediately.
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