ACSM
A significant scaling-up of advocacy, communication and social mobilization (ACSM) for TB will be needed to achieve the global targets for TB control. The success of the Global Plan will rest on the ability of ACSM efforts to generate political, social, and behavioural change at all levels.
There is an urgent need to expand ACSM in donor and endemic countries, directed at rapidly building and financing a multilevel, multisectoral social movement to reverse the TB epidemic and achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the Stop TB Partnership's targets.
The full implementation of the Global Plan's ACSM activities, including some aspects of technical cooperation, requires US$3.2 billion over ten years.
