SUSTAINING TB CONTROL AND ENSURING UNIVERSAL ACCESS

TO COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY TB CARE

GOAL PROJECT BACKGROUND

To reduce the prevalence, incidence and
mortality of TB by 50% in 2010 and beyond
50% thereafter from a baseline established in
2000 in support of the Millennium
Development Goals for poverty alleviation.
Target Groups/Beneficiaries
 TB patients with limited access to TB
services: urban, rural poor and/or
indigenous peoples, vulnerable groups
such as children, TB patients in prisons
and drug-resistant TB patients.
 Health care providers involved in
treatment and diagnosis, the expected
results of which will be in line with the
sector wide development approach for
health (SDAH) reform and the DOH
FOURmula One (F1) for health strategy.
 Health care workers to be trained on the
management of all types of TB patients
providing them with treatment options
for DOTS failures.
 TB patients to be trained on the
strategies under DOTS and will
participate in the implementation of the
DOTS strategy.
Strategies
1. Quality DOTS: Timely detection and
quality treatment of cases through DOTS
2. Public-Private Mix DOTS (PPMD)
3. Advocacy, Social Mobilization for TB
(ASMT)
4. Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)
5. TB Laboratory Strengthening
The Philippines is ranked 9th amongst the 22 high burden
countries for tuberculosis (TB) with an estimated incidence of
smear (+) TB cases of 133/100,000 population. In 1996, the
Department of Health implemented the DOTS strategy and in
2003, the case detection rate was 68% with treatment success
rate of 88% for the past three years.
The recent 2009 WHO document on the Global MDR-TB and
XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008 cited the Philippines as the
16th of 25 high MDR-TB priority countries, which together are
responsible for 85% of the global MDR-TB burden.
The Global Fund is a unique global public/private partnership
dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to
prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This
partnership between governments, civil society, the private
sector and affected communities represents a new approach
to international health financing. The Global Fund works in
close collaboration with other bilateral and multilateral
organizations to supplement existing efforts dealing with the
three diseases.
The Global Fund TB Grant is being managed by the Philippine
Business for Social Progress (PBSP) as the Principal Recipient
(PR) and is being implemented with the following partners as
sub-recipients (SRs):
 Department of Health- Infectious Diseases Office (IDO);
 Department of Health- National Epidemiology Center (NEC);
 Department of Health- National TB Reference Laboratory
(NTRL);
 World Vision Development Foundation Inc.;
 Christian Action for Relief and Empowerment, Inc.;
 Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis (PhilCAT);
 Holistic Community Development Initiatives Inc.; and
 Lung Center of the Philippines.
Contact Information:
Mr. Eric E. Camacho
Program Manager
PBSP-Global Fund Project
2/F PSDC Bldg., Magallanes cor. Real Sts., Intramuros, Manila
Telephone: (63 2) 527-7741 local 107/222
Email: eecamacho@pbsp.org.ph