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Stop TB ACSM Releases New Advocacy Guide

25 Nov 2010
by Working Group
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The ACSM Subgroup of the Stop TB Partnership released a new guide to country-level best practices for advocacy, communications and social mobilization.

> click here to download the report (.pdf – 3,800kb)

From the report:

ACSM Advocacy Report
ACSM Advocacy Report

This document contains good practice examples of country-level Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) submitted by the following organizations and entities: Project PACS (Programa de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde) (Brazil), National TB Control Programme (NTP) and Programme d’Appui au Monde Associatif et Communautaire
(PAMAC) (Burkina Faso), PATH (Cambodia), Profamilia (Dominican Republic), Foundation Alli Causai (Ecuador),
Ghana Stop TB Partnership (Ghana), Operation ASHA (India), Family Health International (Malawi), Project Concern International (Mexico), Centre for Health Policies and Studies (Moldova), Provincial Health Office, Malolos, Bulacan Province (Philippines), Catholic Relief Services – United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (Philippines), HealthRight International (Romania), National TB Control Programme (Sudan), Project HOPE (Tajikistan), PATH (Ukraine).

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