Scaling up and Enhancement of the National Tuberculosis Program in the Philippines

The Philippines has the ninth-highest TB burden in the world and has seen the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB. The overall goal of the program supported by this grant is to reduce the prevalence, incidence and deaths related to TB by half. The program aims to enhance the quality of DOTS implementation in the public sector through increasing access to and the quality of DOTS services; increase demand for DOTS services in public and private DOTS facilities by removing barriers to access through social mobilization and social marketing for underserved populations; ensure access to quality DOTS; increase treatment of multidrug-resistant TB; and sustain and strengthen TB and HIV collaboration in an epidemiological scenario where the TB prevalence is high and HIV burden is low.