Organization:Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2001 to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem. Its 2000 partner organizations include international, nongovernmental and governmental organizations and patient groups. The secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and, since 2015, has been administered by UNOPS. Previously it was 12 hosted by the World Health Organization.[1]
It is governed by a Board,[2] supported by two standing board committees, the Executive Committee, and the Finance Committee. The current Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership is Dr. Lucica Ditiu.[3] The STBP Board provides leadership and direction, ensures coordination within the Stop TB Partnership, and monitors the implementation of agreed policies, plans, and activities of the Secretariat.
History
The Stop TB Initiative was established following the meeting of the First Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Tuberculosis Epidemic held in London in March 1998.[4] In March 2000 the Stop TB Partnership produced the Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB, which called for action from ministerial delegations of 20 countries with the highest burden of TB. That same year the World Health Assembly endorsed the establishment of a Global Partnership to Stop TB.[5]
Global Plan to End Tuberculosis
The Global Plan to End TB, 2023-2030[6] is a plan for ending TB as a public health challenge by 2030. It is produced by the Stop TB partnership and provides a blueprint of priority actions required and a detailed estimate of financial resources needed to end TB. This Global Plan builds on the previous edition, which laid out priority actions for 2018-2022, informed by global commitments member states endorsed at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB. The resource needs estimates from this Global Plan include resources needed for implementing TB care and prevention and R&D into new tools. This Global Plan has already informed the Global Fund Investment Case and the 2022 G20 deliberations on TB. It calls on funders to contribute $5 billion annually for TB R&D. In 2021, only $1 billion was raised.[7]
Prior to this, five other plans were produced:
The first Global Plan to Stop TB 2001-2005 provided a coherent agenda to rally key new partners, push forward research and development, and have a rapid impact on TB in the areas suffering most from the epidemic It focused on the emerging challenge of rising drug resistance in TB and HIV infection.
The second Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 was launched in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. The total cost of the Plan - US$56 billion - represented a threefold increase in annual investment in TB control compared with the first Global Plan. The Plan set out to reduce TB incidence and reach the Partnership’s targets for 2015 of halving TB prevalence and deaths compared with 1990 levels.
The third Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015 focused on scaling up existing interventions for the diagnosis and treatment of TB and introducing new technologies and notably new diagnostic tests.
The fourth Global Plan to End TB 2016–2020 took the End TB Strategy as its foundation and provides countries and policymakers with a path towards achieving the Strategy’s milestones.
The fifth Global Plan to End TB 2018-2022 aligned with the Political Declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on the Fight Against TB. It provided an estimate of the resources needed to achieve the targets and commitments set at the UNHLM on TB in September 2018 by the deadline of December 2022.
Main activities
The Partnership's activities focus chiefly on raising awareness about TB and advocating for greater commitment to and funding for TB prevention, treatment and research.[citation needed] The Partnership consists of a Coordinating Board, a Partnership Secretariat hosted by UNOPS in Geneva, Switzerland, and seven Working Groups (WG).[5] It also provides TB drugs directly to countries heavily affected by the disease through its Global Drug Facility.[5]
Reviews
GiveWell review
Charity evaluator GiveWell first reviewed the Stop TB Partnership in July 2009.[8] At the time, the Stop TB Partnership was given a 3 star rating, the highest possible. Until November 2011, the Stop TB Partnership was among GiveWell's top-rated charities, second only to VillageReach.[citation needed]
In November 2011, GiveWell published an updated review of Stop TB[9] and concluded that "The Stop TB Partnership does not currently qualify for our highest ratings." They elaborated by saying that: "As of November 2011, we do not have a clear understanding of Stop TB's room for more funding. We have discussed this question with Stop TB and hope to improve our understanding of this in the future."
Employee treatment
On September 12, 2020, The New York Times published an article on the Stop TB Partnership titled "A Global Health Star Under Fire".[10] The article states that "the leader of a global campaign to prevent tuberculosis has been accused of bullying and harassing employees, and creating a poisonous work environment especially for people of color, according to interviews with current and former staff members and internal documents obtained by The New York Times."[11]
The Treatment Action Group released a statement condemning the reported bullying, harassment, and racism at the Stop TB Partnership and called on the Stop TB Partnership Board to commission an independent review into the allegations.[12]
References
- ↑ "Stop TB Partnership". https://www.stoptb.org/.
- ↑ "The Board | Stop TB Partnership". https://www.stoptb.org/who-we-are/board.
- ↑ "Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, on the Global Impact of Tuberculosis - Press Conference | UN Web TV" (in en). 2023-05-04. https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k144qr7fy6.
- ↑ "Stop TB Partnership - About the Stop TB Partnership". http://www.stoptb.org/stop_tb_initiative/. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "User account | Stop TB Partnership". https://www.stoptb.org/user/login?destination=node/11978.
- ↑ "Global Plan to End TB | Stop TB Partnership". https://www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-endtb/global-plan-to-end-tb.
- ↑ Raithby, Leigh; September 2023, Evaline Kibuchi // 07 (2023-09-07). "Opinion: We won't get the innovation needed to end TB without more R&D" (in en). https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-we-won-t-get-the-innovation-needed-to-end-tb-without-more-r-d-106137.
- ↑ "Stop TB Partnership - July 2009 review | GiveWell". https://www.givewell.org/international/charities/stop-tb/july-2009-review.
- ↑ "Stop TB Partnership | GiveWell". https://www.givewell.org/international/charities/stop-tb.
- ↑ Mandavilli, Apoorva (2020-09-12). "A Global Health Star Under Fire" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/health/ditiu-stoptb-united-nations.html.
- ↑ Mandavilli, Apoorva (2020-09-12). "A Global Health Star Under Fire" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/health/ditiu-stoptb-united-nations.html.
- ↑ "Treatment Action Group Condemns Reported Bullying, Harassment, and Racism at Stop TB Partnership" (in en-US). https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/treatment-action-group-condemns-reported-bullying-harassment-and-racism-at-stop-tb-partnership/.
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