Stop TB Partnership
The vision of the United Nations hosted Stop TB Partnership ...
Stop TB Partnership
The vision of the United Nations hosted Stop TB Partnership is to
realize the goal of elimination of Tuberculosis (TB) as a public health problem
and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB by ensuring that every TB patient
has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure; The Stop TB Partnership
is uniquely positioned to act as a coordinator and catalyst for the range of
partners engaged in the fight against TB, which has now become the leading
global cause of death from an infectious disease.
To meet the ambitious global goal to end TB by 2035
and the targets proposed in the Stop TB Partnership’s
Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020, implementation of the latest tools and approaches in the fight against
TB is essential. Ensuring the most up-to date policy frameworks, tools, and
guidelines are adopted is a critical starting point for ensuring countries are able
to achieve the major scale up needed to reach the ‘end TB’ goal.
The global TB
community also needs a set of metrics, beyond the number of people
reached/cured, to monitor progress towards the goals above and to help shape
demands for accountability of national governments and global health actors,
preferably on a shorter time-span than 20 years or even 5 years.
Brief Description of the Project:
This project will give the successful applicant the opportunity to work
at the intersection of policy and advocacy and to employ research, analytical,
and advocacy skills to produce a report for two of the world’s leading
organizations in the fight against TB.
In partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this is project will have two phases:
- To
continue development of an advocacy tool kit to accompany the 2015 Out of Step
report, including creating a landscape of events for presentation of the Out of
Step 2015 results, and generation of talking points appropriate for the
audience.
- To
document national Tuberculosis policies in key areas (previous examples
included Scale-up TB diagnosis and drug resistance testing, Optimize models of
care, Upgrade DSTB treatment protocols, Update regulatory framework and DR-TB
treatment policies) in a minimum of 25 TB endemic countries in
order establish areas where policies need revision to match global standards
The policy review requires working with multiple partners to gather responses,
including National TB Program managers, TB experts and activists.
- The result of this project is the Annual Out
of Step report, which will be released in March 2017.