Abstract
After many years of TB ‘control’ and incremental progress, the TB community is talking about ending the disease, yet this will only be possible with a shift in the way we approach the TB response. While the Asia-Pacific region has the highest TB burden worldwide, it also has the opportunity to lead the quest to end TB by embracing the four areas laid out in this series: using data to target hotspots, initiating active case finding, provisioning preventive TB treatment, and employing a biosocial approach. The Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative provides a platform to support partners in the development, evaluation and scale-up of new and innovative technologies and approaches to advance TB programs. We present several approaches TB REACH is taking to support its partners in the Asia-Pacific and globally to advance our collective response to end TB.
Highlights
Since the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic was declared an emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1990s, different global TB strategies, each growing more comprehensive and ambitious in their plans and goals, have been developed and deployed
The Asia Pacific Region has embraced these ideas at the highest political levels [76,77]
To work towards ending TB, the TB community needs to be innovative, bold, and try things that have never been done at scale by working to bring the highest standards of care to all of those who need it
Summary
Since the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic was declared an emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1990s, different global TB strategies, each growing more comprehensive and ambitious in their plans and goals, have been developed and deployed. In 2018, the TB community came together at a UN High Level Meeting (UNHLM) to agree on ambitious global targets and called for an end to the epidemic in the decade [3,7,8]. Business as usual approaches will not be sufficient to reach these targets, and this is what drives Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan: The Paradigm Shift [7]. We present how the Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative has addressed the different areas outlined in the Lancet Series “How to Eliminate Tuberculosis” [16] with particular attention paid to the Asia-Pacific
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