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NGOs call for funds to eliminate TB
- At the India Showcase Event– a preparatory meeting before the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment (2020-2022), NGOs working towards eliminating tuberculosis have appealed the Indian government to ensure adequate funding and effective implementation of the National Strategic Plan to End TB (2017-2025).
- NGOs and other stakeholders have further committed to support the government to a) create person-centred, rights-based and gender-sensitive response to TB, b) facilitate last-mile support to TB patients through partnerships with service providers and c) provide real-time data on TB cases for an early warning.
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or Global Fund/ GFATM), is an international financing organization that mobilizes and invests funds in multi-year cycles known as Replenishments, to support national programs aiming at controlling the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
- India has been associated with GFATM since 2002 both recipient and donor.
- According to WHO 2018 Global TB Report, India has the highest burden of TB and multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) -an infectious airborne bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- The government of India has taken several initiatives to control TB in India:
- Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) which focuses on case-detection and TB treatment through Directly Observed Treatment-Short Course (DOTS) strategy
- National Strategic Plan (NSP), 2017-2025 -a framework to provide guidance for the activities of various stakeholders to reduce the burden of TB mortality and morbidity, and work towards the elimination of TB in India by 2025- 5 years ahead of the Sustainable Development Targets (SDG 3.3) which calls to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, among others, by 2030.
