Introduction

If your organization deals with prevention, care and control of tuberculosis, you might consider partnership as a valuable approach to address the challenges you face every day in your country.

Partnership is an innovative way to engage in TB control by taking into account the competencies and comparative advantages of actors that come from different sectors of society and play a role at the level where they can perform better and more effectively. The nature of these partnerships is necessarily country-specific, expressing typical cultural and organizational diversity. Depending on the local situation, countries might decide to leverage already existing forms of collaboration/coordination and initiate a national stop tuberculosis (TB) partnership.

A national stop TB partnership is a voluntary alliance between organizations drawn from the public, civil society and private sectors who commit to work collaboratively towards TB prevention, care and control, in which all partners contribute from their core competencies, share risks and responsibilities and benefit by achieving their own, each others and the overall goal.

A national stop TB partnership aims at strengthening the prevention, care and control of tuberculosis in a given country in close collaboration with the national TB control programme (NTP) towards the targets of the Global Plan to Stop TB.

Its main focuses are advocacy, communications and social mobilization (ACSM) and service delivery, but activities are decided by its partners on a case by case basis. A national stop TB partnership can influence policy-makers and mobilize additional resources (advocacy), help in changing knowledge, attitudes and practices among the general public or specific populations about TB (communications) and contribute to the process of bringing together all feasible and practical intersectoral allies (social mobilization). A national stop TB partnership can contribute to the implementation of the national plan to control TB by harnessing the contribution of all stakeholders, including health service providers.

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Here you can find general information on the concept of national stop TB partnership, that could be used to present the idea and generate buy-in from a core group of partners.

• Concept note on national stop TB partnership
• Presentation on concept note
• Inventory on already existing material