General Information |
| Board Constituency: |
Developed Country NGO |
| Organization Type - Primary: |
Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: |
Faith-based organization (FBO) |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: |
Yes |
| Organization Reach: |
International |
| Organization Description: |
Founded in 1928, Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is the oldest and largest U.S.-based Catholic organization focused exclusively on international healthcare. Its mission is to work collaboratively to provide quality healthcare programs, without discrimination, to people in need globally. CMMB has been involved extensively in building sustainable health programs, placing medical volunteers and delivering essential medicines, without regard to religion, in more than 75 countries. CMMB works with a wide range of secular and faith-based organizations, which reach some of the most remote areas in the developing world. An independent non-profit organization with more than 150 staff globally, CMMB implements this work through its country and regional offices in South Africa, Southern Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Haiti, Honduras, India and Peru.
CMMB can facilitate meeting the “know-do” gap, by engaging multiple stakeholders in scaling up interventions related to bettering TB outcomes in the hardest hit contexts. With health and community networks globally, including South Asia and Africa, CMMB has the leadership and technical capacity to be a strong Stop TB partner. CMMB has a record of serving and building the capacity of regional networks of MoH and FBO institutions to provide high-quality services in the field of tuberculosis. For example, CMMB worked in TB care beginning in the 1990’s in Zambia’s Monze District with the Ministry of Health. CMMB set up 7 diagnosing centers, 14 rural health centers, and treated 6000 people over a 4-year District-wide program. At the time (1996-99), Zambia had an estimated 32,600 cases throughout the country. CMMB provided training, lab technical support and supplies, and medications. The program was considered a viable ‘model’ and has since been scaled up nation-wide. In the area of chronic care services and HIV/TB linkages, CMMB has worked since 2004 as a major partner in the AIDSRelief Program. The CRS-led project, works primarily through a network of faith-based institut |
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| Total number of staff in your organization: |
100 + |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
26 - 50 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: |
1 - 5 |
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| What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? |
$500,001-$1 MIL |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: |
Stop TB communications |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: |
Information on developments within the TB world |
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| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: |
No |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: |
Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: |
| CMMB contributes to the national TB control plans in Haiti and several East and Southern African countries by integrating HIV/AIDS and TB services, particularly case-finding and testing. |
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Geographical Reach |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: |
United States of America |
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: |
African |
Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Haiti Honduras India Kenya Peru South Africa Sudan Uganda Zambia |
Specializations in Countries |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Haiti |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Honduras |
| Delivery of health services and care |
India |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Kenya |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Peru |
| Delivery of health services and care |
South Africa |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Sudan |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Uganda |
| Delivery of health services and care |
Zambia |