Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the World Health Organization Country Office for India and other technical and donor partners conducted a Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) to review the India’s Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) from 10 April 2015. Since the programme’s inception, there have been five such missions. The last one was undertaken in August 2012.
Objectives of the JMM:
- Review India’s progress in implementation of the National Strategic Plan and follow-up on the recommendations of JMM 2012.
- Review the country’s progress towards universal access to TB care, challenges and plans for TB control efforts, and to advise GoI and partners on the pathway towards strategies in line with End TB Strategy.
The Joint Monitoring Mission took place in a context characterized by the recent adoption of the ‘End TB strategy’ by the Member States to end the TB epidemic in the world and India’s experience with implementation of its ambitious strategies as per the National Strategic Plan 2012-17.
The 2015 JMM has 100 national and 50 international experts and specialists from the international agencies partnering with the RNTCP.