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Goals and Objectives
Goals
The overall goal for TB control is to reduce morbidity,
mortality and transmission of TB until it is no longer a public health
problem in the Region.
Objectives The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
provide a benchmark to measure the impact of disease control and prevention programmes, including tuberculosis control.
The objectives for tuberculosis
control in all Member Countries in the Region are to:
 reach
and thereafter sustain the 2005 targets—achieving at least 70% case detection
and 85% treatment success among all TB cases under DOTS (Indicator 24),
in order to then,
reach
the targets of halving TB deaths and prevalence (Indicator 23) by 2015,
in turn to
“have
halted and begun to reverse the incidence of TB” as implicitly stated under
Goal 6 of the MDGs.
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Millennium
Development Goals, 2015
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 8: To have halted and begun to reverse the spread
(incidence) of priority communicable diseases, including TB
Indicator 23: Prevalence and death rates associated with
tuberculosis
Indicator 24: Proportion of smear-positive pulmonary
tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS (the internationally
recommended TB control strategy)
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The Regional Strategic Plan 2006–2015
The Regional Strategic Plan
for TB Control (2006-2015) describes the future directions and focus of work
for TB control in the Region. The targets and strategies in this document are
consistent with the global targets and strategies, but focus on priorities
most relevant to this Region and build on what has been achieved during the
previous 5-year period.
The interventions proposed are grouped under the following
4 strategic approaches:
1. Sustaining
and improving the quality of DOTS to reach all TB patients;
2. Forging
partnerships to ensure equitable access to an essential standard of care to
all TB patients;
3. Establishing
interventions to address TB-HIV and MDR-TB; and
4. Strengthening
monitoring and surveillance to measure progress towards MDGs.
In addition, every effort will be made to ensure that
there are adequate finances and human resources to support the implementation
of all the planned interventions. 
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