09 Feb Strategic Initiative Events at the Union Lung Conference in Hyderabad
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_separator type=”normal” thickness=”2″ up=”20″ down=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2911″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1581280237990{padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Global Fund Session: What is New in the Next Funding Cycle 2020-2022
As a follow up to the sixth Global Fund replenishment conference, 9-10 October 2019 in Lyon, France and to discuss new allocation cycle, Stop TB Partnership collaborated with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, WHO. Stop TB Partnership was part of the panel discussion aimed at updating participants on the changes in the tools and materials for new funding applications. The panel also shared the lessons learned from implementation of community, rights and gender interventions at country level during 2017-2019 funding cycle in implementation. The Panel also looked ahead on how partners, including Stop TB Partnership, will support countries in the next funding cycle 2020-2022. Participants included representatives of National TB Programmes, implementing and technical assistance partners, civil society and community representatives and other stakeholders.
Post Graduate Course: Gender integration for TB programming: essential elements for achieving sustainable health outcomes; with examples from India, Novotel Hotel, 30th November 2019
The Stop TB Partnership, Country and Community Support Programme collaborated with USAID Infectious Diseases Division and REACH India to design and facilitate a post graduate training on integrating gender into TB programming. The training – “Gender integration for TB programming: essential elements for achieving sustainable health outcomes” – was designed to help TB program implementers understand how gender dynamics influence health outcomes and how to address gender gaps and opportunities in global health programs and services. During this course, Stop TB Partnership shared experience with rolling out Gender Assessment tools to strengthen capacity of participants on assessing, ways in which gender impacts on the vulnerability to TB infection, access to TB services and treatment outcomes.
Sharing the findings of the South Africa Community Rights and Gender Assessment
Following the completion of the CRG assessment in South Africa, Stop TB Partnership in Collaboration with CRG Lead NGO TB/HIV Care shared some of the findings at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health entitled the “Transgender women and TB vulnerability, care access and quality in South Africa: a qualitative study.” The results of the full assessment are also available here.
Communities, Rights & Gender in India: Strengthening national TB responses
In 2019, REACH India completed a CRG Assessment to further understand the barriers to TB universal access experienced by people affected by TB. During the UNION, REACH, together with TB survivors, legal experts and the Stop TB Partnership, facilitated a workshop to unpack the key findings from the Assessment and explore ideas to help overcome the legal barriers to universal access that were identified in the Assessment. The full assessment is available here.
The Role of the Law in Strengthening TB Responses
Stop TB Partnership, together with Northwestern University School of Law and the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA), brought together lawyers and TB survivors from Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Philippines and Kenya to introduce and unpack the legal and human rights barriers to accessing TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care services. The workshop introduced a human rights-based response to TB and explored issues of access to medicines, TB in prisons and TB related discrimination. The workshop established national networks between TB survivors and lawyers to take this work forward at the country level.
To find out more about other SI and Stop TB events at the Union, please see our interactive report from Hyderabad.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]