There are 12 civil society representatives from Latin American and Caribbean countries who participated in the INCIDE TB - LAC Mentoring Program implemented by Socios En Salud for the development of advocacy plans that contribute to ending tuberculosis.
Socios En Salud, through its project INCIDE TB - LAC with the support of the TB Coalition of the Americas and the Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round 10 of Stop TB Partnership, developed the Mentoring Program for the development of advocacy plans in the countries of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Panama, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Dominican Republic, in order to strengthen the technical capacities of civil society working on tuberculosis.
Response against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills 3 people every minute globally. Thus, it continues to be a public health problem. Faced with this situation, with the aim of contributing to the development of advocacy actions in the comprehensive approach to tuberculosis, advocacy plans are carried out with the active participation of civil society in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Implementation of advocacy plans
Over the 4 weeks (June 28-July 27) each representative developed an advocacy plan as part of the human rights-based, gender equity and people-centered TB response with emphasis on the themes of: COVID-19 impact, relevant TB indicators, CRG (Community, Rights and Gender) perspective, and UN HLM policy commitments monitoring table.
Following the approval of these plans, INCIDE TB - LAC awarded mini-grants for the implementation of these advocacy actions over 90 days, the results of which will be presented at an upcoming Regional Summit in December 2022. The following are the topics and beneficiaries of the mini-grants according to the problems identified in each country:
From Partners In Health we will continue working to reduce barriers in access to health, research, advocacy, social protection, among others, through the promotion of advocacy actions, in order to protect the human rights of people affected by tuberculosis.