RESULTS UK released a report on TB and Universal Health Coverage (UHC), 'Tuberculosis and Universal* Health Coverage. *Terms and Conditions Apply'.
The report includes a detailed case study on Kenya and a scorecard analysis of 32 high-burden countries' TB policies on access, social protection and integration.
It aims to define what provision of TB services in “the context of progress towards UHC” looks like in practice, and to what extent the recognition of the co-dependency of ending TB and achieving UHC at international fora like the United Nations and the World Health Organization translates to action at ground level.
It defines an essential set of services that would both help to make the TB response “universal” and help to make the TB response contribute to the achievement of UHC more broadly.
The report argues that, when done deliberately and well, investing in people-centred TB services builds every element of UHC. Ending TB and building UHC are not competing goals: they are deeply and inherently complementary.
The report can be accessed here.
Source: RESULTS UK