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Resource | Guidelines,
These guidelines are intended for experienced producers of cost data who may know less about how to cost TB services. This manual is TB-specific and allows costing work to be adapted to context and purpose. While this guidance can be used for those who have not costed health services previously, where this is the case we would advise using the Reference Case as a complementary resource.
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The impact of investments in health can be measured in many ways, and one of the most important measures is how many lives are saved. Health programs supported by the Global Fund partnership have saved 27 million lives as of the end of 2017.
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HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are the two most deadly infectious diseases in the world. Globally in 2016, TB took the lives of more than 1.7 million people, while 1 million died from HIV-related illnesses. TB is also the leading cause of death for people living with HIV, with about one-third of HIV-related deaths occurring as a result of the co-infection.
This document captures the achievements from 2015-2017 of the Multi-Country Western Pacific Integrated HIV/TB Programme. The programme improved the coverage and quality of HIV/TB prevention, treatment and care in 11 countries: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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The 2018 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Tuberculosis and the current revision of the Roadmap for childhood tuberculosis together present an important moment to consolidate and advance advocacy, commitment, resource mobilization and joint efforts by all stakeholders to provide health care and address the burden of TB among children.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
Tuberculosis country profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database.
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The fight against TB is integrally linked with the region's broader aspirations for health and development. TB sits at the intersection of health and development – the poor are exceptionally afflicted by TB, and up to four times more than those in the highest income bracket. TB perpetuates poverty by debilitating those with disease, often in the most productive years of age. It is estimated that TB patients in low and middle income countries face expenditures equivalent to more than 50% of their annual income in fighting this disease.
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, all countries are now committed to "end TB" which essentially means at least a 90% reduction in TB mortality and 80% reduction in TB incidence by 2030. This needs a paradigm shift in strategies that we use to address TB. While the global goal of Ending TB has received political support, the reality is that the current pace of progress in the Region is too slow – and by several orders of magnitude in most countries – to reach the End TB targets.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
Tuberculosis country profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
Tuberculosis country profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database.
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
Tuberculosis country profiles are generated automatically based on data reported by countries and which are held in WHO's global TB database.