Patient dying of MDR-TB and HIV and her mother in Lesotho. (c) Open Society Institute/Pep Bonet

This is what we stand for. As today’s World TB Day comes to a close (at least in this part of the world), please take a minute to sign up to one of our expert-led communities on GHDonline.org — two focus on fighting and eradicating this deadly scourge (MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention and TB Infection Control).

And if you have a few more minutes, please read “No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century“, an article in the Huffington Post co-authored with Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, Ph.D, Sc.M, former GHDonline moderator, and currently Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Senior TB Specialist at Partners In Health.

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Partners In Health's Program Management Guide

“There is a growing recognition of a need to make monitoring and evaluation (M&E) more effective for programs to use data to understand gaps and improve performance, quality and effectiveness.” – Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn, Director of Monitor, Evaluation and Quality at Partners In Health

Strengthening local health systems is an implicit goal of many global health initiatives and programs, but ensuring this goal is achieved alongside competing priorities and deliverables can be incredibly challenging, particularly in resource-poor settings.

From April 2nd to 6th, GHDonline, in collaboration with Partners In Health and in conjunction with the Program Management Guide, will host an Expert Panel discussion, Integrating M&E for Health Systems Strengthening, to address the ways that Monitoring and Evaluation can be used to assess whether, and how well, programs are being implemented as planned and achieving their goals and objectives.

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