One year of COVID-19 and its impact on private provider engagement for TB: A rapid assessment of intermediary NGOs in seven high TB burden countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted health systems and health programs across the world. For tuberculosis (TB), it is predicted to set back progress by at least twelve years. Public private mix (PPM)has made a vital contribution to reach End TB targets with a ten-fold rise in TB notifications from private providers between 2012 and 2019.

Harnessing the energy of the corporate sector to end TB: BE health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3 million people with TB are missing' from the official information system. They remain often undiagnosed and untreated or are managed outside the national TB programme structure by various care providers (including the private for-profit sector) and are not notified. The care provided to these patients is often sub-standard, not aligned with national and international guidelines, and un-regulated.

Global Fund financing of public-private mix approaches for delivery of tuberculosis care.

Objectives: To map the extent and scope of public-private mix (PPM) interventions in tuberculosis (TB) control programmes supported by the Global Fund.

Methods: We reviewed the Global Fund's official documents and data to analyse the distribution, characteristics and budgets of PPM approaches within Global Fund supported TB grants in recipient countries between 2003 and 2008. We supplemented this analysis with data on contribution of PPM to TB case notifications in 14 countries reported to World Health Organization in 2009, for the preparation of the global TB control report.