Table 2 challenges and opportunities for tuberculosis
Category | Challenges | Opportunities |
|---|---|---|
Actor | - The private sector has not been effectively involved in the control and treatment of TB. | - Three key organizations – WHO, the GF and the Stop TB partnership have been enhancing the policy community. |
- Most NGOs are facing a lack of financing, which may weaken their capacity for implementation. | ||
- Active engagement of NGOs, CSOs and community organizations. | ||
Ideas | - Need to pay more attention to human-rights aspects of TB prevention and treatment. | - Clear and well-established models of the causes of TB and of interventions for reducing the TB burden. |
- Well framed as security issues. | ||
Political context | - Given the increased number of health issues highlighted at UN high-level meetings in recent years, it is uncertain how much impact such a meeting on TB has on the attention and priorities of the high-level leaders. | - Already listed in MDGs and SDGs |
- Ministerial conference on ending TB in the sustainable development era in Moscow in 2017 | ||
- UN high-level meeting on TB in 2018 | ||
Issue characteristics | - R&D for new drugs, vaccines and diagnosis are too slow and funding is limited. | - Top infectious killer globally |
- Substantially affects children | ||
- Well-known interventions (4-regimen, 6-months) |