Thailand - Stop TB Partnership

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Copyright © 2006 by the Open Society Institute. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN: 1-891385-55-0 978-1-891385-55-1 Published by Open Society Institute 400 West 59th Street New York, New York 10019 USA www.soros.org For more information: Public Health Watch Open Society Institute Email: phwinfo@sorosny.org Website: www.publichealthwatch.info Design by Jeanne Criscola | Criscola Design Layout by Judit Kovács | Createch Ltd. Printed in Hungary by Createch Ltd. Cover Photograph by Spencer Platt | Getty Images
Contents Preface 5 Acknowledgments 6 Abbreviations 9 I. Public Health Watch Overview 11 II. Report on TB Policy in Thailand 35 Executive Summary 36 Background 38 Baseline statistics 38 TB/HIV and multidrug-resistant TB 38 Health system infrastructure 39 Health reform 40 Political commitment 41 Public mobilization 42 World TB Day 43 Media coverage 43 Stigmatization of TB patients 44 Government Program for TB and TB/HIV Control 46 Program content 46 TB and poverty reduction 46 DOTS expansion 47 DOTS implementation 48 TB/HIV 49 MDR-TB 51 Case recording and reporting 52 Targeting vulnerable populations 53 Program management 55 Administration 55 Staffing 56 Budgeting and expenditures 57 Monitoring and evaluation 58 Infrastructure, drugs, and research 58 Primary health care system 58 Drug distribution systems 59 Education and research 60 3
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Page 10 and 11: Public Health Program The Open Soci
Page 13 and 14: I. PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH Overview
Page 15 and 16: The Public Health Watch TB Monitori
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Page 19 and 20: In Tanzania, where over 50 percent
Page 21 and 22: Lack of public awareness contribute
Page 23 and 24: The hidden costs of treatment It is
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Page 29 and 30: Civil society engagement in TB poli
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Page 38 and 39: Executive Summary Tuberculosis inci
Page 40 and 41: Background Baseline statistics Thai
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take an active role in monitoring d
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Prison populations TB prevalence is
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Staffing Health care reforms result
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egional level, and does not give an
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Distribution In addition to manufac
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Partnerships Collaboration with pri
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with HIV/AIDS. 146 In recognition o
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meetings, and health worker trainin
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• Maintain attention to reducing
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- Impact of health system reform on
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Notes 1. United Nations Development
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48. See, e.g., J. Ngamvithayapong,
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88. Comments from Attapon Cheepsatt
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136. WHO, Global Tuberculosis Contr
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WE RECOGNIZE THAT: THE GLOBAL tuber
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