Global Funding – New Funding Request (NFR) Public Private Mix Model
Status: On-going Start Date: Jan 2019 End Date: Dec 2020 Geographic Coverage: 6 Districts in Balochistan Focus Area: Education SDG Goal: 4 To ensure good health and Well-being for all Implementing Partner: SPO Funding Partner: Mercy Corps
SPO is a Sub-Recipient (SR) with Mercy Corps in six districts of Balochistan under New Funding Request (NFR) and Public Private Mix (PPM) model involving private General Practitioners (GPs) and private laboratories from January 2018 to December 2020. The project aimed to achieve SDG goal 4 which demands good health and well-being for all.
The programme targets following six districts of Balochistan which are selected as per TB cases reported in the year 2016 for the project:
SPO is closely working in collaboration with the Balochistan TB Programme which supervises and monitors the implementation of TB control activities at the Provincial level. At the district level, SPO implemented the activities under the supervision of District TB Coordinators (DTCs), who are facilitated and supported by the District Lab Supervisor (DLS), General Physicians and Regional In-charge of SPO’s TB programme.
The Objectives of the TB Control Programme in Balochistan are:
• To increase the number of notified TB cases from 366,061 in 2016 to at least 453,409 by end of year 2020 while maintaining the treatment success rate at 91%.
• To increase the enrolment of Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases from 19.2% in year 2016 to at least 30% by end of year 2020.
Under the project, SPO has to register 2,213 TB patients through private GPs and laboratories. Similarly, 144 TB patients through 72 community gatherings and 72 chest camps in selected districts, whereas through community gatherings 2,880 men and women will be involved and through chest camps 4,320 men, women and children will be involved for active TB case finding in the areas of the districts where TB incidents rates are high.
SPO as part of advocacy campaign organized community gatherings and chest camps in various high prevalence areas for active case finding. By involving community notables, it aimed to spread the message to larger numbers of men, women and children to participate in chest camps. In these camps doctors, Lady Health Workers and laboratory technicians examined patients with symptoms of more than one-week old cough and carried out sputum microscopy. In cases of positive results, patients were registered through recording and reporting tools and additional physical check-ups carried out by providing TB medicines with regular follow-ups till complete treatment and cure was achieved. SPO aims to continue its efforts for a TB free Pakistan.
