Thailand - Stop TB Partnership

Contents
Preface 5
Acknowledgments 6
Abbreviations 9
I. Public Health Watch Overview 11
II. Report on TB Policy in Thailand 35
Executive Summary 36
Background 38
Baseline statistics 38
TB/HIV and multidrug-resistant TB 38
Health system infrastructure 39
Health reform 40
Political commitment 41
Public mobilization 42
World TB Day 43
Media coverage 43
Stigmatization of TB patients 44
Government Program for TB and TB/HIV Control 46
Program content 46
TB and poverty reduction 46
DOTS expansion 47
DOTS implementation 48
TB/HIV 49
MDR-TB 51
Case recording and reporting 52
Targeting vulnerable populations 53
Program management 55
Administration 55
Staffing 56
Budgeting and expenditures 57
Monitoring and evaluation 58
Infrastructure, drugs, and research 58
Primary health care system 58
Drug distribution systems 59
Education and research 60
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