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Review of Public-Private mix DOTS initiative in Myanmar

Yangon: Department of Medical Research ( Lower Myanmar ), National Tuberculosis Programme, Department of Health, 2010 Sept. 109p

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This review was based on the information gathered from all partners involved in PPM DOTS-Myanmar Medical Association (MMA), Population Services International/Myanmar (PSI/M), Japanese International Cooperative Agency (JICA)- and the National TB Guidelines, the National TB Programme (NTP) annual reports, Notes for the records of partner meetings on PPM, WHO monitoring mission reports, presentations at PPM partners meetings and annual evaluation meetings and other available published and unpublished literatures.

The purposes of this review were:

• To document PPM DOTS initiatives and implementation in Myanmar including lessons learnt from pilot projects of all partners and,
• To provide guidance for the scale up of TB control in Myanmar .

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Abbreviations
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• TB in Myanmar
• Concepts of PPM DOTS
• Rationale of involving private sectors in TB control in Myanmar
• Role of NTP in PPM DOTS
• MMA
• PSI
• JICA
• Role of research in PPM DOTS
• Coordination mechanism
• Scale up plan for PPM DOTS
• Recommendations
• Reference
• Annexes