Program Management

This report summarizes the accomplishments and activities of the Stop TB Partnership in 2001.

This report is the background document of the 2nd ad hoc Committee on the TB epidemic. The committee has reviewed progress in global TB control, examined constraints to improved TB control in high-burden countries, and sought solutions to these constraints through a wide consultative process during 2003. The results of this work are set out in this background document prepared for the meeting of the 2nd ad hoc Committee in September 2003.

This guide is to help providers establish and enhance social support services in a TB clinic. The purpose of this guide is to help the worker to (1) establish social services, (2) develop a therapeutic alliance with clients, (3) create an Intake Form to identify barriers to TB treatment and formulate goals to reduce those barriers and increase client functioning, (4) counsel and help clients achieve their goals, (5) form support groups, and (6) lead or participate in case management.

This pocket guide is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with MDR TB in DOTS-Plus projects.

This report presents a tools package for public-private mix initiatives for DOTS implementation (PPM-DOTS) as a means of TB control. The purpose is to help national TB program (NTP) managers begin involving private providers (PPs) in DOTS implementation and to sustain collaboration.

This book presents five papers that were used as background to a workshop on "Improving TB Drug Management: Accelerating DOTS Expansion" on June 2002, in Washington, DC. The papers address the weaknesses in drug management programs of certain countries and provide a framework for strengthening these programs through country-specific action plans.

This report assesses the effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of the public-private mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS) program in pilot projects in Hyderabad and Delhi, India.

This book presents the objectives of the binational agenda for the Healthy Border 2010 program which was designed to facilitate and support community-based solutions for health promotion, disease prevention, and access to health services in the border region.

This report presents a regional framework for addressing TB/HIV co-infection in the Western Pacific that is adapted to the epidemiological profile and health service system of the region and identifies areas in which both programs can complement each other to address TB/HIV.

This guideline sets forth the framework to guide European countries in developing their national plan for reducing TB/HIV morbidity and mortality. The framework sets out the rationale for effective collaboration between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis national programs.