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Notes
1. For all five national reports please see www.publichealthwatch.info or contact Public Health Watch at:
phwinfo@sorosny.org.
2. The DOTS strategy has five principal components: sustained political commitment; access to qualityassured
TB sputum microscopy; standardized therapy under proper case management conditions;
uninterrupted supply of quality-assured drugs; and systematic recording and reporting of TB cases.
Available at www.who.int/tb/dots/whatisdots/en/index.html (accessed May 17, 2006).
3. See Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB, adopted at the Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis &
Sustainable Development on March 24, 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, available at www.stoptb.
org/stop_tb_initiative/amsterdam_conference/documents/decla.pdf (accessed May 16, 2006).
4. Executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), The Guardian,
May 30, 2005.
5. BRAC staff confirm a pressing need for more quality microscopes at the field level. Interview with
Faruque Ahmed, director of health programs, BRAC, Dhaka, March/April 2005.
6. Comment by Afsan Chowdhury, Public Health Watch researcher and director of advocacy, BRAC,
December 12, 2005.
7. NTBLCP/NASCAP Power point presentation, Graph 5: Trend of HIV seroprevalence in TB patients—
1991–2001, NASCAP, 2001 Sentinel Survey Report.
8. “Table 1: NTLP funding and expenditure for 2003,” in MoH, NTLP Annual Report (Dar es Salaam,
2003), p. 4.
9. Interview with health care provider, Ogun State, February 16, 2005.
10. Comment by Akramul Islam, Public Health Watch researcher and manager of the health and nutrition
program, BRAC, December 14, 2005.
11. Comment by Afsan Chowdhury, director of advocacy, BRAC, Dhaka, December 11, 2005.
12. “TB Overview,” Global Health Reporting, available at www.globalhealthreporting.org/tb.asp (accessed
May 25, 2006).
13. WHO, Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning Financing, (Geneva: WHO, 2006), p. 1.
14. Comment by Ezio T. Santos Filho, Public Health Watch researcher, Public Health Watch roundtable
meeting, São Paolo, March 30, 2006.
15. Fazlul Karim, Insana Begum, Akramul Islam, and AMR Chowdhury, “Gender barriers to TB Control:
Fade-out or in?” BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, September 2003, p. 6.
16. Interview with C.O. Nwakonobi, Imo State TB and leprosy coordinating officer, Imo State, April 11,
2005.
17. Ezio T. Santos Filho, Public Health Watch researcher, observations from social mobilization
workshops, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
18. Study by Healthscope Tanzania and the NTLP, reported in MoH, NTLP Annual Report (Dar es Salaam,
2003), p. 5.
19. Comments by Rev. Sanan Wutti, The Church of Christ in Thailand, Public Health Watch roundtable
meeting, Chiang Mai, December 9, 2005.
20. Comment by Zafrullah Chowdhury, project coordinator, Gono Shahsthya Nagar Hospital (GK), Daily
Star roundtable meeting, Dhaka, December 13, 2005.
21. Presentation by Jamillah Mwanjisi, Public Health Watch researcher and director of Media Bank, Global
Health Council panel discussion, Washington, D.C., March 2006.
22. Comment by Somsak Akksilp, director, Office of Disease Prevention and Control Region Seven, Public
Health Watch roundtable meeting, Bangkok, December 6, 2005.
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