STOP TB PROGRAM

• Envisioning a tuberculosis free world, the goal of the

Stop TB Program (STP) is to dramatically reduce the
global burden of tuberculosis (TB) by 2015. This is in
line with the WHO’s millennium development goals
and the Stop TB partnership which aims to push the TB
up the world political agenda.
• One of the objectives of the program is to achieve
universal access to high-quality care (i.e.,universal
access to high quality diagnosis and patient centered
treatment) for all people with TB(including those co-
infected with HIV and those with drug-resistant TB).
 TB CASE DETECTION AND SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE
TREATMENT OR CURE OF TB

• It remains at the core of the Stop TB

Strategy. Thus, by 2050, one of the targets
of the strategy is to reduce the prevalence of
and death due to TB by 50 percent
compared with the 1990 baseline.
 THE HMIS INDICATORS TO MONITOR STOP TB
PROGRAM ARE
• TB patients on DOTS (Number of new smear-positive pulmonary
TB cases enrolled in the cohort)
• TB case detection (Number of new smear –positive pulmonary
cases dectected, number of new Smear negative pulmonary TB
cases detected, number of new extra-pulmonary TB cases
detected).
• HIV-TB co-infection(Proportion of newly diagnosed TB cases For
HIV).
• HIV+ new TB Patient enrolled in DOTS.
• TB treatment outcome (Treatment completed PTB+,Cured
PTB+,Defaulted PTB+ ,Death PTB+)
KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER
 Monitoring and evaluation(M&E) is a core component of current
efforts to scale up for better health. Global partners and countries have
developed a general framework for M&E health System strengthening.
 The primary aim of HMIS is to have a strong M&E and review system
in place for the national health strategic plan that comprises all major
disease programs and health systems.
 There are different HMIS indicators which can be used in monitoring
the key aspects of health system performance. These are from among
the five categories, Namely, reproductive health, immunization, disease
prevention and control, resources utilization and data quality.
 HMIS is a source of routine data that is necessary in monitoring the
different aspects of the various health programs implemented in a
country. The HMIS indicators should be carefully selected to meet the
essential information necessary in monitoring the performance of
various health programs and services and to present an overview of the
available health resources.