24 Jul Rights and Gender in Benin: Francophone Africa gets a Boost from SI Support
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Following the workshop Best Practices on TB Case Finding and Treatment – Reflections and Lessons from West and Central Africa and Beyond, October 2018 and the Global Fund Office of the Inspector General Advisory Report, May 2019, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in partnership with WARN TB, Stop TB Partnership, World Health Organization, among other partners organized a follow-up workshop on Best practices and lessons learned on TB case finding and treatment in the West and Central African with a special focus on community approaches and childhood TB.
Fifteen country delegations from the region participated and best practices from DR Congo, Kenya, Eswatini, Malawi, Rwanda and Madagascar were shared. Stop TB Partnership, represented by 16 people, leveraged country experiences and assessments developed under the Strategic Initiative to provide technical assistance to countries, on how to integrate community, rights and gender (CRG) approaches in the TB response to create an enabling environment so that quality TB services are available, accessible and acceptable to all.
Stop TB Partnership disseminated the Field Guides on Finding the Missing people and TB, developed under the Strategic Initiative. By way of examples Stop TB Partnership also shared best practices from TB REACH and Challenge Facility for Civil Society projects, supported by the Strategic Initiative on the management of childhood TB (Eswatini), active case finding among children (Kenya), active case finding among nomadic populations (Nigeria), community-based monitoring for social accountability (DRC) and reemphasized the role of the Global Drug Facility in accessing quality-assured affordable TB medicines and diagnostics. Given the findings of the Global Fund Office of the Inspector General Advisory Report, May 2019 on Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Performance in the Challenging Region of West and Central Africa the outcomes of this workshop are appropriate and timely.
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