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Inter-regional planning workshop on Public-Private Mix for tuberculosis control
EMRO, Cairo, Egypt, 25-28 February 2007

Outline

Background

Engaging all care providers in TB control through Public-Private Mix (PPM) approaches with the help of the new International Standards for TB Care, is a core component of the new Stop TB Strategy. Several countries have already begun involving different types of health care providers in TB control and countries in Asia with a large private sector are making reasonable progress. PPM activities are already in place in some countries of Africa and in the Eastern Mediterranean region and there is great potential to successfully maximize TB care and control through PPM in these countries. A TB CAP project on promoting public-private partnership for TB control, supported by USAID, has offered an excellent opportunity to make rapid progress in this area. National situation assessments have been carried out in 5 AFR and 5 EMR countries. Equipped with the situation assessment reports, National TB Programme Managers and their national level focal persons for PPM will participate in this PPM planning workshop. The aim of the workshop is to help NTP managers with preparing sound, budgeted and action-oriented operational plans for PPM expansion in their respective countries. The objectives and expected outcomes of the workshop are as below: 

Objectives

  1. Review the progress made in the involvement of all TB health care providers in TB control activities in the participating countries.

  2. Discuss the results of the PPM Situational Assessment in the participating countries.

  3. Support countries in developing realistic, country-specific, short to medium-term PPM operational plans with budgets, based on the national situational assessments and available collective global experiences and resources.

Expected outcomes

  1. An improved version of the national situational assessment tool for wider use

  2. Country-specific, action oriented, operational plans for PPM initiation and / or expansion with detailed budget for the first two years.

 

 

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