The Global Fund focuses on getting patients to drop in while the Youtube version focuses on the public private partnership.

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Myanmar: Getting Patients to Drop In

When community health volunteer Cherry Moe finds people suffering from a persistent cough or other symptoms of TB, she has good advice: Go to Dr. Yu Yu May’s clinic on the outskirts of Mandalay. The visit and medicines are free, and the doctor’s clinic doors are open from morning till evening.

In a Country Highly Burdened by TB, Public Private Partnership is Key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQSfingA9U

Dr. Yu Yu May’s clinic is one of more than 1,500 general practitioners throughout Myanmar that are part of the Sun Quality Health Clinic franchise, begun by PSI, the international non-governmental organization in 2001. It aims to equip general practitioners throughout Myanmar with training to treat TB in line with national disease strategy and international treatment guidelines. TB treatment is provided by Myanmar’s Ministry of Health, and general practitioners receive approximately US$2 for each patient they treat. In 2012, Sun Quality Health Clinics throughout the country reached approximately 20,000 people. In addition, the initiative provides training to the Community Health Volunteers, and technical support to doctors to use data entry tools so that the patients they treat are documented in national health data—an essential part of efforts to effectively combat TB.

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