NATIONAL TB CONTROL PROGRAMME
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STOP TB Strategies

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1. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement

  • Political commitment with increased and sustained financing
  • Case detection through quality-assured bacteriology
  • Standardized treatment, with supervision and patient support
  • An effective drug supply and management system
  • Monitoring and evaluation system, and impact measurement

2. Address TB/HIV, MDR-TB and other challenges

  • Implement collaborative TB/HIV activities
  • Prevent and control MDR-TB
  • Address prisoners, refugees and other high-risk groups and situations

3. Contribute to health system strengthening

  • Actively participate in efforts to improve system-wide policy, human resources, financing, management, service delivery, and information systems
  • Share innovations that strengthen systems, including the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL)
  • Adapt innovations from other fields

4. Engage all care providers

  • Public–Public and Public–Private mix (PPM) approaches
  • International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)

5. Empower people with TB, and communities

  • Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
  • Community participation in TB care
  • Patients’ Charter for Tuberculosis Care

6. Enable and promote research

  • Programme-based operational research
  • Research to develop new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines