Tools for planning & evaluation
These tools have been developed independently by partner organizations. They are of added value during the TB programming process with a PCF approach. Please refer to the organisations’ website (links are provided for each tool) for more details.
Integrated Health Tool
The Integrated Health Tool for planning and costing (IHT) a next-generation version of the OneHealth Tool. It is a web-based tool designed to support national strategic health planning over the medium term. The tool provides planners with a single framework to assess costs, health impact, scenario comparisons and financing strategies for one or multiple diseases, or health sector wide. The…
WHO eLearning course on National Strategic Planning for TB
This eLearning course belongs to the free learning platform OpenWHO, developed by WHO. It is a comprehensive, self-paced, online course that is aligned with WHO’s Guidance for national strategic planning for tuberculosis. This course will provides the knowledge and skills needed to take part in national strategic planning for TB. The course explains the rationale for developing a national strategic…
Short-Course TB Preventive Therapy for LTBI
IMPAACT4TB – Increasing Market and Public health outcomes through scaling up Affordable Access models of short Course preventive therapy for TB – is a four-year project introducing a new way to tackle latent Tuberculosis (TB) infection in order to slow and ultimately stop new TB cases occurring every year. This is done by identifying and providing new, shorter treatment options…
Stigma Reduction
Stigma and discrimination are recognized as some of the most commonly identified barriers to fight the TB epidemic. KNCV’s philosophy on reducing TB stigma is to build empathy and mutual respect among communities, health care workers and TB patients. It aims to reduce the tendency to label, blame, shame and control by strengthening the awareness of our own judgements. To…
Stigma Measurement
The KNCV Stigma Measurement Guidance is designed as a compendium guide of stigma measurement tools and approaches. The goal of this manual is to help busy people generate enough information about stigma issues to design and monitor and evaluate (M&E) stigma reduction efforts.
MATCH Approach
The MATCH approach (Mapping and Analysis for Tailored disease Control and Health system strengthening) for National Tuberculosis Programmes. MATCH supports National Tuberculosis Programmes to more effectively use resources to treat populations with ongoing tuberculosis transmission.