Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

BACKGROUND

The League of Cities of the Philippines is implementing athree – year project that aims to help enable cities becomeeffective partners of the national government in addressingTuberculosis.

Entitled: Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB), the Projectis a key component of the Innovations and MultisectoralPartnerships to Achieve Control of Tuberculosis (IMPACT)Project.

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

BACKGROUND

The IMPACT is a five – year project funded by the Agency forInternational Development (USAID), and managed by thePhilippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to support the2010 – 1016 Philippine Plan of Action to Control Tuberculosis(PhilPACT) spearheaded by the Department of Health (DOH).

The PhilPACT engages both public and private sectors at thenational and local levels to detect and successfully treat TBcases.

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

BACKGROUND

The PhilPACT calls for the localization of TB control programs,and highlights the roles of LGUs as the main drivers, at the locallevel, of TB control program implementation in accordance withtheir mandate from the Local Government Code of 1992 topromote the general welfare and provide for health services(Section 17).

The project sites are those that are identified by theDepartment of Health (DOH) as priority areas, i.e. having lowdetection and low cure rates.

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

STATUS OF PARTNER SOUTHERN LUZON CITIES

High Case Detection Rate- Low Cure Rate

Cavite Imus San Pablo

High Case Detection Rate- High Cure Rate

Low Case Detection Rate- Low Cure Rate

Antipolo Bacoor Batangas Dasmarinas Tagaytay Tanauan Trece Martirez

Low Case Detection Rate- High Cure Rate

Binan Cabuyao Calamba Lipa Sta. Rosa

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

STATUS OF PARTNER SOUTHERN LUZON CITIES

Only 2 out of 17 cities accomplished

the survey forms that were sent by

LCP CCTB Team!

Cabuyao and Batangas have

created their respective Multi –

Sectoral Alliances, but the

members are not meeting on a

regular basis.

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

OBJECTIVE

Develop, implement and monitor a project thatpromotes the commitments of city mayors to the TBcontrol program in IMPACT Project sites 64 cities,including 11 in NCR)

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

CCTB INTERVENTIONS

• Conduct of advocacy activities on theimportance of TB prevention and control andneeded LGU actions including the draftingand approval of city resolutions, ordinancesand budgets

• Provision of technical assistance(e.g. participatory decision-making and policy-making in the Sangguniang Panglunsod, LocalHealth Board, City Planning and DevelopmentCouncil)

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

CCTB INTERVENTIONS

• Conduct of capacity development programs (with DOH) toenable cities to adhere to PhilPACTS’s standards on DOTS

• Promotion and strengthening of public-private collaborationand multi-sectoral partnerships for TB control at the citylevel

• Promotion of knowledge exchanges among citygovernments on good practices on TB prevention andcontrol, such as city sharing sessions

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

CCTB INTERVENTIONS

• ensuring access i.e. application for and utilization of PBGsfor TB control of highly urbanized cities and componentcities of provinces to performance-based grants of DOH-NTP and making sure that necessary TB service deliveryimprovements are in place, improved, enhanced

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

CCTB APPROACH

• Strengthening linkages among cities, DOH, IMPACT, andother stakeholders

• Maximizing available resources (human, financial, time) forTB control by synchronizing CCTB activities with the otherIMPACT components

• Close coordination with the cities through the LCEs

Cities Combating Tuberculosis (CCTB)

THANK YOU!