A pilot of a new intervention in TB service provision launched from July 1 st , 2019 in Georgia. The intervention aims at improving adherence to TB treatment and its outcomes through introduction of a package of interventions, including an integrated TB care at primary health care level and a Results Based Financing (RBF) scheme…
Sophie Witter, Professor of International Health Financing and Health Systems at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, shares her reflections on the gains and pains of the first 18 months of the Results4TB programme in Georgia Georgia has a high overall tuberculosis (TB) treatment success rate, but with wide geographical variation, and a high loss to follow up.…
Tuberculosis continues to be one of the world’s biggest killers and remains in the top 10 causes of death worldwide. It occurs in every part of the world, but over 95% of cases and deaths occur in developing countries. While TB has been declining globally in recent years, it is actually increasing in Europe, and the number…
Bruno Marchal and Ariadna Nebot Giralt contribute to better TB care in Georgia Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Georgia is a well-kept secret even to avid travelers. Even less people would associate the country of nearly four million inhabitants with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, mainly because…well, it is not…
Following the first PT workshop the research team drafted the intervention concept and held several meetings with the main stakeholders from the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs (MoLHSA) of Georgia to introduce the concept and discuss certain critical issues with them. The meetings were helpful…
The Results4TB research project includes a policy formulation process and further adopts a controlled trial design, integrating cost-effectiveness and realist evaluation components, for estimation of impact and value for money. This allows evaluating policy effectiveness in terms of adherence and treatment success rates and estimation of policy cost per desired outcomes. In order to understand…
