National Partnerships
Introduction to National Partnerships
National partnerships to Stop TB are a new feature in the fight against tuberculosis. They bring all national stakeholders together to raise awareness for greater engagement and commitment. The nature of these partnerships is necessarily country-specific, expressing typical cultural and organizational diversity. In order to learn more about these new national partnerships and/or country coordination mechanisms, fact sheets have been developed on the basis of a questionnaire to ensure comparable and more or less standardized presentation of information. This information reflects the situations as of early 2005. These are likely to change, considering the dynamic developments that take place in many of the countries. Nevertheless we hope that these fact sheets will provide useful insight into national TB partnerships and will encourage others to consider similar initiatives to scale up the fight against TB.
Practical information is available below for countries that wish to set up National Partnerships to Stop TB:
- The Power of Partnerships
- A Pocket Guide to Building Partnerships
- The development process for national partnerships to Stop TB
- Organizational and legal aspects for setting up a national partnership secretariat
If you have any questions or comments on a particular fact sheet, please feel free to contact the primary contact person of the country.
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National Stop TB Partnerships
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News
13-14 November 2006 - Workshop on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization, Sao Paulo - Brazil
In Spanish
WHO/PAHO Brazil office realized a workshop on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) with the coordination of the Ministry of Health. This workshop was achieved thanks to the participation of USAID funds and as part of the TBCTA activities for the DOTS Strategy implementation.
Participants were the representatives of the State Secretaries, Health Municipalities and the civil society from 10 metropolitans areas (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Baixada Santista, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Belem, Fortaleza, Recife, Porto Alegre, Manaus). These 10 metropolitans areas are directly beneficiaries from the GFATM, were they will make use of the resources for the ACSM activities.
The objectives of the workshop activities were:
1. To learn what the Brazilian States are doing in ACSM and how best we can share the best practices from Rio de Janeiro y Sao Paulo, Ceará, Minas Gerais;
2. To acknowledge the challenges to create ACSM workplans in the different States;
3. To establish a first strategic plan for ACSM activities in each of these States, in order to discuss and get approval from the authorities and the civil society.
As a result, each State produce a strategic plan for ACSM, which was discussed and approved in a plenary session. Each plan will be used by their respective State to best implement the GFATM funds.
1st November 2006 - 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health: Workshop on how to build a Stop TB advocacy committee at country level: developing a handbook
The Network of Stop TB country committee has met twice by conference call. They held a symposium at the 2005 Union World Conference , where they determined to create a handbook of materials and experiences to guide new national Stop TB country advocacy groups. In the lead up to the 2006 Union World Conference a draft version of the handbook will be developed by a low-income high-burden country (Sudan), a high-income low-burden country (Italy) and a middle-income country (Mexico). The drafts will be circulated to all country level Stop TB advocacy groups for comments. The drafts will be revised at the workshop with facilitators from each of the three representative countries.
Click here to view the agenda.
29 October 2006 - Iranian National TB Day
The time of World TB Day is concurrent with Iranian New Year holidays (Nowrooz Holiday). Accordingly, every year Iran organizes a National TB day Ceremony in October. Click here for the report of this year ceremony.
For comments, please contact the Coordinator of the Iranian Stop TB Committee at shadikhalilolahi@yahoo.com.
9 May 2006 - Latest report activities from the Iranian Stop TB Committee (NCFTC). View report.
If you have suggestions and comments, please contact Shadi Khalilolahi at shadikhalilolahi@yahoo.com.
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