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  Goal, Objectives and Strategy

 Nepal Stop TB Strategy

Vision: Nepal free of TB

Goal: To reduce the mortality, morbidity and transmission of tuberculosis until it is no longer a public health problem in Nepal.

Objectives:

Achieve universal access to high-quality diagnosis and patient-centered treatment
Reduce the human suffering and socioeconomic burden associated with TB
Protect poor and vulnerable populations from TB, TB/HIV and multidrug-resistant TB
Support development of new tools and enable their timely and effective use

Targets
MDG 6, Target 8: ...halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence.....

Targets linked to the MDGs and endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership:

by 2005: detect at least 70% of new sputum smear-positive TB cases and cure at least 85% of these cases
by 2015: reduce prevalence of and death due to TB by 50% relative to 1990
by 2050: eliminate TB as a public health problem (<1 case per million population)

Components of the Stop TB strategy

1. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement

  • Political commitment with increased and sustained financing
  • Case detection through quality-assured bacteriology
  • Standardized treatment with supervision and patient support
  • An effective drug supply and management system
  • Monitoring and evaluation system, and impact measurement
2. Address TB/HIV, MDR-TB and other challenges
  • Implement collaborative TB/HIV activities
  • Prevent and control multidrug-resistant TB
  • Address prisoners, refugees and other high-risk groups and special situations

3. Contribute to health system strengthening
  • Actively participate in efforts to improve system-wide policy, human resources, financing, management, service delivery, and information systems
  • Share innovations that strengthen systems, including the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL)
  • Adapt innovations from other fields

4. Engage all care providers
  • Public-Public, and Public-Private Mix (PPM) approaches
  • International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)
5. Empower people with TB, and communities
  • Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
  • Community participation in TB care
  • Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care
6. Enable and promote research
  • Programme-based operational research

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