Strategic vision 2006-2015

There is an urgent need to expand Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) in donor and endemic countries, directed at 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 ACSM Working Group’s strategic vision is to achieve TB-free communities.

Above: Dr Kenneth Kaunda, First President of Zambia, with Carole Francis of the Stop TB Partnership at the launch of the Second Global Plan to Stop TB in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2006. Right: HE Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, at the African Union meeting on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in May of 2006.

(1) Global advocacy: creating the political accountability and social pressure required to shape policy agendas and mobilize US$56 billion from 2006 to 2015 for TB control and new tool development; and

(2) Country-level ACSM: establishing and funding evidence based and innovative country- and community-driven ACSM activities to effect sustainable societal and behavioural change at the national, subnational and individual level, aimed at ensuring access to treatment and care for all, particularly the poor, vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations.