UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its
partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the
world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the
United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects,
infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Working in
some of the world’s most challenging environments, our vision is to advance
sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our
partners’ expectations.
With over
7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the
logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need
it.
A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond
to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of
scale.
Stop TB Partnership
UNOPS hosts the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership Secretariat (STBP) as of 1 January 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland. The vision of the 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; stopping transmission of TB; reducing the inequitable social and economic toll of TB; and developing and implementing new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies. The Stop Partnership is uniquely positioned to support the development and further implementation by partners of the current and future Global Plan, acting as a coordinator and catalyst for the range of partners engaged in the fight against TB.
Founded in 2001, the Stop TB Partnership's mission is to serve every person who is vulnerable to TB and ensure that high-quality treatment is available to all who need it. Our partners include international and technical organizations, government programmes, research and funding agencies, foundations, NGOs, civil society and community groups and the private sector
Although a treatable and curable disease, TB
still kills more people than any single infectious disease. In 2015 1.8 million
people lost their lives to the curable disease and only 6.1 million were
reported as receiving treatment. While political commitment to end TB is
increasing, a key challenge to find the 4.3 million people that are estimated
to suffer from TB and MDR-TB but are “missed” because they are not diagnosed
and/or reported to the National TB Programmes (NTPs). The missing people with
TB usually include the most vulnerable and those without proper access to care,
living in poverty or hard-to reach places (e.g. people living with HIV,
children, women, miners or migrant communities). NTPs and their partners are
increasingly focused on trying to close this gap and Stop TB Partnership’s
Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020 as well as WHO’s End TB Strategy seek to ensure
that all people who are suffering from TB are identified and can receive proper
treatment.
To help catalyze the response to this challenge
the Global Fund (GF) established, for its new funding cycle, a number of Catalytic
Investments for different disease areas to help countries focus on where need
is greatest. For TB, the clear priority area is reaching the missing people who
have TB. In order to achieve this goal more ambitious and comprehensive approaches
will need to be developed with and for NTPs and partners. Many tools and
guidelines have been developed in recent years that have led to more
high-quality and rapid diagnosis for TB, but these advances have proven to be
insufficient for curbing the epidemic, as they often lack guidance on how to
identify and implement locally tailored interventions. Effective interventions
need to be tailored to local situations so as to address existing barriers to
health services and target the key populations of people with TB who are missed.
The Stop TB Partnership has been
commissioned by the GF to support countries involved eligible for Catalytic
Investments and their TB case finding efforts to reach ambitious targets as
part of their National Strategic Plans in the 2017-2019 period.