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Engaging All Health Care Providers in TB Control: Guidance on Implementing Public-Private Mix Approaches

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Engaging All Health Care Providers in TB Control: Guidance on Implementing Public-Private Mix Approaches

This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based, International Standards for TB Care. The experience and evidence on scaling up and sustaining PPM is now clearly emerging. The authors hope that this document will help countries to scale up PPM DOTS more rapidly and contribute significantly to achieving the TB-related Millennium Development Goal.

Author:

World Health Organization, Global TB Programme

Audiences:

Community Leaders, International Agencies

Topic:

Case Management, Treatment Guidelines Materials, Program Management, Partnership Building

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