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| Title |
Description |
File Type |
| Direct Procurement Brochure |
A guide to the GDF Direct Procurement Service for donors, non-governmental organizations and programme managers |
English: pdf file 248kb
Spanish: pdf file 265kb
French: pdf file 275kb |
| Newsletter Issue No. 4 - Dec 05 |
This issue of the GDF Newsletter focuses on the GDF’s strategy for creating self-sufficient drug programmes and how the Technical Review Committee (TRC) empowers the GDF to deliver efficient and responsible support to countries - even as the needs of programmes around the world change. |
English: pdf file 985kb
Spanish: pdf file 3.2mb |
| What is the GDF? - Nov 05 |
A Power Point Presentation on the Services, Operations and Impact of the Global TB Drug Facility. |
English 3.4mb French 3.7mb |
| Newsletter Issue No. 3 - May 05 |
This issue of the GDF Newsletter highlights GDF in-country activities and acknowledges the hard work of national TB control programmes (NTPs) who made 4 in 4 happen as well as the partners without whom it would not have been possible. |
pdf file 1.8mb |
| Sustaining the Gains [WHO/HTM/STB/2005.34] |
The GDF Sustaining the Gains Strategy describes how the GDF encourages countries to take increasing responsibility to fund their TB control programmes while maintaining uninterrupted access to standardized, quality and competitively priced anti-TB drugs -- thus ensuring that any "gains" made through GDF grants are secured. |
English: pdf file 961kb
French: pdf file 415kb |
| The Global TB Drug Facility: innovative global procurement |
This paper describes the GDF operational procedures and experience gained so far. Key achievements to date are also outlined, including the creation of a flexible supply system to meet differing programme needs, rapid establishment of procedures, reduction in TB drug prices—a catalyst for DOTS expansion in countries, standardisation of products, and collaboration with partners. |
pdf file 79kb |
Operational Guide for National Tuberculosis Control Programmes on the Introduction and Use of Fixed-Dose Combination Drugs
[WHO/CDS/TB/2002.308 - WHO/EDM/PAR/2002.6] |
WHO has recently published this publication. Both WHO and The Union recommend the use of fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs to prevent monotherapy and reduce the risk of drug resistance. This guide will assist NTP managers and their TB partners to understand underlying issues in drug management related to switching to FDCs, i.e. quantifying drug needs, assuring quality, stock management, and use. One chapter is solely devoted to how to changeover to FDCs. |
pdf file 507kb French  572kb |
Improving TB Drug Management - Accelerating DOTS Expansion
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.19] |
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is increasing in many parts of the world, and partner organizations of Stop TB recognize the significant role drug management plays in ensuring that safe, effective, quality drugs are available when and where patients need them.
The main objective of the survey discussed in this paper was to identify specific problems in connection with drug management and availability of drugs for treating tuberculosis (TB) at the central and peripheral levels in two developing countries, Republic of Congo and India (the state of Uttar Pradesh). |
pdf file 2591kb |
Frequently asked questions: about the 4 drug fixed-dose combination tablet recommended by WHO
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.18] |
The majority of tuberculosis patients worldwide are still treated with single drugs, or with 2-drug fixed-dose combinations (FDCs). To improve tuberculosis treatment, 2- and 3-drug FDCs were recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the DOTS strategy. Recently, however, a 4-drug FDC containing 150 mg rifampicin, 75 mg isoniazid, 400 mg pyrazinamide, and 275 mg ethambutol was added to the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs, which made possible an intensive-phase treatment for tuberculosis based fully on an FDC. This document is intended to answer frequently asked questions about the recently introduced 4-drug FDC, but many of the issues are also relevant to the 2- and 3-drug FDCs. |
English 164kb
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Newsletter
(Issue No.2 - Oct'02) |
The Global Drug Facility (GDF) was launched in March 2001 by the Stop TB Partnership in order to increase access to high-quality TB drugs worldwide. The GDF, managed by the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat and hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), gives grants of TB drugs to lower-income countries and provides a direct procurement mechanism for countries and organizations that wish to buy their own drugs at a reduced cost. The GDF plans to treat 45 million patients by 2010, and prevent 50 million TB cases by 2020. |
pdf file 207kb |
Newsletter
(Issue No.1 - Oct'01) |
The Global Drug Facility (GDF), operative since January 2001, is an innovative approach to secure access to high-quality TB drugs. It mobilizes funds for drug supply, reviews requests from individual countries for drugs, procures quality TB drugs through a competitive bidding process, and monitors to ensure the drugs are used for DOTS expansion. The GDF is managed by the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat in WHO Headquarters, Geneva. Initial funding for the GDF has been provided by the Canadian government. |
pdf file 146kb |
Fact Sheets
(Oct'01) |
What is the GDF?
Future generations will no doubt ask us why we continued to allow two million people to die every year from a disease that can be cured with drugs that cost only US$ 10. They will rightly question our commitment, our priorities, our sense of justice, and our understanding of human rights. |
pdf file 74kb |
Prospectus [WHO/CDS/STB/2000.10a]
(March '01)
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The establishment of the Global TB Drug Facility (GDF) is one of the most important activities of the Stop TB Initiative. In March 2000, Ministers of Health, Finance and Development Planning from twenty of the highest TB burden countries endorsed the "Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB", committing themselves to reaching global DOTS targets by 2005 and calling upon international partners to increase their support to "new international approaches towards ensuring universal access to and efficient national systems for procurement and distribution of tuberculosis drugs." |
pdf file 3811kb
html file 332kb |
