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GOAL

To reduce the prevalence, incidence and

mortality of TB by 50% in 2010 and beyond

50% thereafter from a baseline established in

2000 in support of the Millennium

Development Goals for poverty alleviation.

Target Groups/Beneficiaries

TB patients with limited access to TBservices: urban, rural poor and/or

indigenous peoples, vulnerable groupssuch as children, TB patients in prisons

and drug-resistant TB patients.

Health care providers involved intreatment and diagnosis, the expected

results of which will be in line with the

sector wide development approach for

health (SDAH) reform and the DOH

FOURmula One (F1) for health strategy.

Health care workers to be trained on themanagement of all types of TB patientsproviding them with treatment options

for DOTS failures.

TB patients to be trained on thestrategies under DOTS and will

participate in the implementation of the

DOTS strategy.

Strategies

1. Quality DOTS: Timely detection andquality treatment of cases through DOTS

2. Public-Private Mix DOTS (PPMD)3. Advocacy, Social Mobilization for TB

(ASMT)

4. Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)5. TB Laboratory Strengthening

PROJECT BACKGROUND

The Philippines is ranked 9th

amongst the 22 high burden

countries for tuberculosis (TB) with an estimated incidence of

smear (+) TB cases of 133/100,000 population. In 1996, the

Department of Health implemented the DOTS strategy and in

2003, the case detection rate was 68% with treatment success

rate of 88% for the past three years.

The recent 2009 WHO document on the Global MDR-TB and

XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008 cited the Philippines as the

16

th

of 25 high MDR-TB priority countries, which together areresponsible for 85% of the global MDR-TB burden.

The Global Fund is a unique global public/private partnership

dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to

prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This

partnership between governments, civil society, the private

sector and affected communities represents a new approach

to international health financing. The Global Fund works in

close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral

organizations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the

three diseases.

The Global Fund TB Grant is being managed by the Philippine

Business for Social Progress (PBSP) as the Principal Recipient

(PR) and is being implemented with the following partners as

sub-recipients (SRs):

Department of Health- Infectious Diseases Office (IDO); Department of Health- National Epidemiology Center (NEC); Department of Health- National TB Reference Laboratory

(NTRL);

World Vision Development Foundation Inc.; Christian Action for Relief and Empowerment, Inc.; Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis (PhilCAT); Holistic Community Development Initiatives Inc.; and Lung Center of the Philippines.

SUSTAINING TB CONTROL AND ENSURING UNIVERSAL ACCESS

TO COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY TB CARE

Contact Information:

Mr. Eric E. Camacho

Program Manager

PBSP-Global Fund Project

2/F PSDC Bldg., Magallanes cor. Real Sts., Intramuros, Manila

Telephone: (63 2) 527-7741 local 107/222

Email: eecamacho@ bs .or . h

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