INTRODUCTION OF
STOP TB PARTNERSHIP KOREA

Hongjo Choi, MD. PhD(KNTA, KIT)Table of Contents
1. Name and legal corporate status
2. Short history
3. Relationship with other organizations
4. Members: Membership, Current number
5. Purposes

6. Activities
7. Current challenges

<History of Korean TB situation>(Kim and Yim, 2015)

Name and legal corporate status• Name : STOP-TB Partnership Korea(STBK)• Legal corporate Status : None
- Secretariat of STBK was installed under Korean National
TB Association in 2009

Short history<Progress>
2008. 3 : Announcement of establishment / operation plan of the STOP-TB Partnership
KOREA by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korean Center for Disease Control

2009. 6 : Establishment of the STBK's Secretariat under Korean National Tuberculosis
Association

2010. 3 : Formal registration as the national cooperation partner of WHO Stop TBPartnership2010. 12 : STBK inaugurated with 19 partners(Chairperson : Sook Mi Son, , Member of National Assembly)

2012. 11 : Hold 1st forum of national to stop western pacific & south-east asia regions
2015. 9 : Appointment 2nd chairperson, Myung Yeon Kim, Member of National Assembly2016. 3 : 44 organizations and almost 60,000 individual partner take part inRelationship with other organizations<STBK Organization Chart>
STBK
CooperationCommittee
STBK
Advisory Committee(Working Group)Relationship with other organizations<Business Implementation System>

Members: Membership, Current number

Secretariat(4 staff)

Cooperation Committee(44 representativesof partner organizations)

STBK
Advisory Committee(36 expert s & person in
charge of partner organizations)Members: Membership, Current number

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Academic &Expert Group

KOREA

Anti -TB
Organizations& Hospitals

Business GroupInternationalOrganizations
PublicPurposes• TB prevention education and support for the vulnerable,particularly, migrants and homeless people• Development and promotion of tuberculosis elimination
projects among underdeveloped countries and exchange
programs for global & National STOP-TB Partnership• Establishment of cooperative system to raise social
awareness and participation into the domestic and global
plan to stop TB.

Activities<Advocacy>

TV Documentary production forImproving TB AwarenessA commemorative eventon the “World TB day”

Activities<Advocacy>

Policy forum to support
efficient TB patient care

Monthly webzine publicationand e-mail service

Activities<Advocacy>

Appoint the representatives of 12
national communities as foreign
TB honorary ambassador

Production of various IEC materials

Activities<Support for The Vulnerable population>

Providing free TB X-ray
screening joint with TB related
partners during multicultural
festival for the immigrants

Providing treatment expense
for MDR-TB Patients<Pilot programs to support homeless TB patients>

Activities<Education>

Health lecture for TB high risk groupsuch as the immigrants, homeless

STOP-TB Camp for youth

Activities<International Cooperation>

Project for Korea-Mongolia Anti-TB
Collaboration in Ulaanbaatar

1st forum of national to stop TB western
pacific & south-east Asia regions

Current challenges• Development and vitalization of various tuberculosis eradication
activities joint with partners to support NTP• Improvement of sustainability STOP-TB Partnership Korea
through developing unique fundraising method besides
government aid• Participating in active international tuberculosis eradication
movement through the reinforcement of global cooperation
capability by developing specific cooperation project andreinforcing link with other national partnership