Strategy component

Components of the Stop TB Strategy

Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement

Secure political commitment, with adequate and sustained financing

Ensure early case detection, and diagnosis through quality-assured bacteriology

Provide standardized treatment with supervision, and patient support

Ensure effective drug supply and management

Monitor and evaluate performance and impact

Address TB-HIV, MDR-TB, and the needs of poor and vulnerable populations

Scale-up collaborative TB/HIV activities

Scale-up prevention and management of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)

Address the needs of TB contacts, and of poor and vulnerable populations (Children)

Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care

Help improve health policies, human resource development, financing, supplies, service delivery and information

Strengthen infection control in health services, other congregate settings and households

Upgrade laboratory networks and implement the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL)

Adapt successful approaches from other fields and sectors, and foster action on the social determinants of health

Engage all care providers

Involve all public, voluntary, corporate and private providers through Public-Private Mix (PPM) approaches

Promote use of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)

Empower people with TB and communities through partnership

Pursue advocacy, communication and social mobilization

Foster community participation in TB care, prevention and health promotion

Promote use of the Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care

Enable and promote researchConduct programme-based operational research

Advocate for and participate in research to develop new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines

Enable and promote research

Conduct programme-based operational research

Advocate for and participate in research to develop new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines