Thailand - Stop TB Partnership

– Impact of health system reform on NTP implementation
– Effective methods for encouraging compliance with DOTS among private TB
service providers
– Advocacy and social mobilization techniques developed by HIV/AIDS NGOs
and their applicability to TB work
– Factors affecting the accessibility of TB services for vulnerable groups
Nongovernmental and community organizations should:
• Investigate opportunities to integrate TB and TB/HIV activities into existing HIV/
AIDS-related programming and activities, including by
– Examining lessons learned from effective NGO advocacy on HIV/AIDS to
gauge applicability to greater advocacy on TB;
– Promoting TB awareness-raising and treatment-literacy activities among networks
of people living with HIV/AIDS;
– Integrating enhanced support services for people living with HIV/AIDS with
TB;
– Developing and implementing TB/HIV-specific stigma-reduction activities;
– Identifying people living with HIV/AIDS who have been cured of TB to act
as spokespeople and leaders in targeted stigma-reduction and TB awarenessraising
activities among people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Articulate specific needs for additional (and more context-specific and culturally
sensitive) information on TB and TB/HIV.
• Assist in the development of patient-friendly information and communications
materials on TB and TB/HIV.
• Assist in development and implementation of targeted outreach services for vulnerable
groups.
• Seek out opportunities for participating in TB policymaking processes at the
national, regional, and local levels.
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