Michael Luhan

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Partnerships to Stop TB

• Michael Luhan
• Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
• Kiev, 19 September 2005

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Overview

• Global Stop TB Partnership - History - Goals
  - Framework
• - Stop TB Partners
• National Partnerships
• - Why building National Partnerships? -
  Products from Global Partnership- Practical
  Example - Existing TB Partnerships
• Regional Partnerships
• - Aims - Products - Expected results -
  Possible next steps

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Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman
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Global Stop TB Partnership - History -
Goals - Framework - Stop TB Partners
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History

• KEEPING THE PLEDGE TO STOP TB (March, 2004)
• - Urgent action is necessary to meet the 2005
  goals

• WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY (May, 2005)
• - Endorsed TB Resolution on Sustainable financing
  
• for TB prevention and control

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Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman
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Stop TB PartnershipGoals

• What Global social movement to Stop TB
• Why
• Need for multi-sectoral approach
• New opportunities to work in partnership
• Vision A TB-free world
• Goal Partners working consistently TOGETHER to
  eliminate TB as a public health problem

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Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman
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Partnership Framework
Global Partners' Forum
Global Drug Facility
Coordinating Board Partnership Secretariat
WHO Technical Advisory Group
W O R K I N G
G R O U P S
DOTS EXPANSION
TB/HIV
Advocacy Communication Social Mobilization
New Diagnostics
New Vaccines
MDR-TB DOTS PLUS
New Drugs
TASK FORCES RESOURCE MOBILIZATION / FINANCING
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Stop TB Partners

• Grown 50 fold since 2000 372 members
• Accelerated TB control progress and funding
• Become a model for international public health
  partnerships
• Reach out to new partners - e.g. the corporate
  business sector, civil society and communities
  affected by TB

Stop TB institutional partners by type
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Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman
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National Partnerships - Why building
National Partnerships? - Products from Global
Partnership- Practical Example - Existing TB
Partnerships
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Why building National Partnerships?
Alliance of organizations, groups and agencies
coming together for common purposes.

• Expand existing DOTS implementation platform to
  reach global targets
• Dynamic role for the National TB Programme
  Manager
• Interact in broader health development agenda
• Resolve difficulties duplication of activities
  and initiatives

PARTNERSHIP DEPENDS ON PEOPLE
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Products available from Global Partnership

• Guideline for Building Partnerships
• Generic Guidelines
• The Power of Partnerships
• Branding of Stop TB
• IT PACKAGE logo, photo image library, training
  material, guidelines, partners database..
• GDF ISAC country support
• Political Advocacy Support
• Guide for High level missions
• Regional Workshop on Advocacy, Communication and
  Social Mobilization

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Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman
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Existing TB Partnerships

• Existing National Partnerships to Stop TB
• Canada, Indonesia, Pakistan, Italy, Mexico,
  Brazil, and Uganda
• Regional Partnerships to Stop TB
• Western Pacific Region
• European Partnership to Stop TB (Stop TB Europe)
  - pending
• South East Asia and Africa under development

ADDED VALUE BETTER TB CONTROL BY ENGAGING ALL
PARTNERS IN THE COUNTRY
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Aims of a Regional TB Partnership

• Regional Cooperation in support of Countries and
  National Partnerships
• Regional platform for innovation and exchange
• Regional forum for Advocacy
• Politicians
• Academia and students
• Private and corporate sectors
• Strengthen regional solidarity between countries
• Filling resource gaps by engaging regional donors
  (e.g from Gulf States)

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Some products for a Regional Partnership

• Regional Partners Database
• Newsletters and information material
• Regional dialogue between EMR Member States
• Encourage regional investments in TB

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Expected results

• Political commitment and support
• Optimal use of all regional resources
• Greater awareness on TB

Broader and more intensified collaboration
involving ALL interested parties and stakeholders
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Possible next steps

• Recommendation from this Meeting
• Appoint Committee of Partners to start work
• Draft TOR including scope of activities
  Establishment of a regional partnership
• Establish secretariat
• Agree with Partners on work plan
• Launch the regional partnership

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Attention..

• NO
• Will not replace the existing coordination
  mechanisms of technical collaborations
• YES
• It can bring other expertise and experience by
  engaging new partners
• It provides an umbrella for coordinating existing
  regional initiatives

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Thank you..

• The reward will be found most meaningfully
• in the faces of those whose lives have been saved
  
• and health restored through our unremitting
  efforts.

10th Meeting for National Tuberculosis Programme
Managers, 12th - 14th June, Muscat-Oman