Expert partners

The Stop TB Partnership is leading the way to a world without tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still kills three people every minute. Founded in 2001, the Partnership's mission is to serve every person who is vulnerable to TB and ensure that high-quality treatment is available to all who need it.

Together our nearly 1100 partners are a collective force that is transforming the fight against TB in more than 100 countries. They include international and technical organizations, government programmes, research and funding agencies, foundations, NGOs, civil society and community groups and the private sector.

We operate through a secretariat hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland and seven working groups whose role is to accelerate progress on access to TB diagnosis and treatment; research and development for new TB diagnostics, drugs and vaccines; and tackling drug resistant- and HIV-associated TB. The secretariat is governed by a coordinating board that sets strategic direction for the global fight against TB.

A UNIQUE INTERNATIONAL BODY

The Partnership is recognized as a unique international body with the power to align actors all over the world in the fight against TB. The participation of a wide range of constituencies gives us credibility and the broad range of medical, social and financial expertises needed to defeat TB.

Vision

Our vision is a TB-free world. Our children will see TB eliminated in their lifetime.

Mission

• To ensure that every TB patient has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure.
• To stop transmission of TB.
• To reduce the inequitable social and economic toll of TB.
• To develop and implement new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies to stop TB.

Targets

• By 2015: the global burden of TB disease (deaths and prevalence) will be reduced by 50% relative to 1990 levels.
• By 2050: The global incidence of TB disease will be less than 1 per million population. (Elimination of TB as a global public health problem.)

Informal Providers Group is the home of a worldwide discussion forum on informal health providers in low and middle-income countries.  The discussion group's purpose is to recognise the reality of informal health providers woldwide, aquire information and a better understanding of their current role and their future potential in healthcare.  The Center for Health Market Innovations and CReNIEO collaborated to create this open forum to share relevant reports, articles, tools, and stories about projects and organizations harnassing informal providers.

As a member of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH), CHMI is a key partner supporting the activities of the Partnership and its members to advocate for the life of every woman, newborn and child. This includes contributing resources to the Partnership's activities, sharing knowledge and disseminating key RMNCH information, and supporting collaborative activities directly relevant to women's and children's health.

Formerly known as the Health Systems Initiative (HSI), the Private Sector Healthcare Initiative (PSHi) works to advance the understanding of private sector healthcare provision in developing countries. PSHi’s goals are to improve the evidence base on the private health sector in developing countries, advance the global understanding of the significance of private sector healthcare provision in low- and middle-income countries, and ultimately, enable governments to more effectively interact with the private sector in order to achieve public health goals. PSHi pursues these goals through research, training and consensus-building around a broad range of private sector issues. A leader in work on social franchising, PSHi manages SF4Health.org and has produced a substantial list of research, publications and conferences on social franchising.

For additional information, please visit their website.

The Microinsurance Network (MiN) promotes the development and proliferation of good-value insurance services for low-income persons by providing a platform for information sharing and stakeholder coordination. The Network’s Health Working Group provides a forum for health insurance professionals to share lessons and disseminate information on various models of health insurance targeted at low-income families. With the financial support of MiN and sponsorship of Abt Associates, Denis Garand and Associates, and the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, the MiN Health Working Group recently developed an inventory of micro health insurance schemes and a repository of lessons learned from these schemes.

For additional information, visit the Microinsurance Network’s website, the Network’s Health Working Group webpage, and the Health Working Group Health Insurance Products and Lessons Inventory featured on the International Labour Organization’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility website.