National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Elimination

TARGET GROUP: PUBLIC

OBJECTIVES                           

·        To propose bold strategies with commensurate resources to rapidly decline TB in the country.

·        To achieve a rapid decline in the burden of TB, morbidity and mortality while working towards the elimination of TB in India by 2025.

SUMMARY

The NSP for TB elimination 2017–25 is a framework to guide the activities of all stakeholders including the national and state governments, development partners, civil society organizations, international agencies, research institutions, private sector, and many others whose work is relevant to TB elimination in India. The NSP 2017-2025 which builds on the success and learnings of the last NSP, and articulates the bold and innovative steps required to move towards TB elimination, is a 3 year costed plan and a 8 year strategy document. It provides goals and strategies for the country’s response to the disease during the period 2017 to 2025 and aims to direct the attention of all stakeholders on the most important interventions or activities that the RNTCP believes will bring about significant changes in the incidence, prevalence and mortality of TB. These strategies and interventions are in addition to the processes and activities already ongoing in the country. As a strategic document, the subsequent operational plans will necessarily follow. The NSP will guide the development of the national project implementation plan (PIP) and state PIPs, as well as district health action plans (DHAP) under the national health mission (NHM). This NSP replaces previous strategies, and will inform and guide the technical and operational guidelines refresh and associated programme tools modifications. The development of this NSP has been a collaborative effort between all the stakeholders including national and state governments, development partners, civil society organizations, and private sector in India which was led by the Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Knowledge and insights generated from a series of workshops and consultations with the stakeholders, learnings from the implementation of the past NSP and experiences from the pilots, models and approaches tested over the last NSP period informed the strategies proposed in the current NSP.

REFERENCE

https://tbcindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/NSP%20Draft%2020.02.2017%201.pdf