Involving the Community in Responding to TB/HIV
April 2008
Since 2004, Public Health Watch has supported 53 individuals and organizations in 38 countries to conduct monitoring and advocacy of policies on TB and HIV.

How the Global Fund Can Improve Roma Health
August 2007
Published by the OSI Public Health Program, this report assesses the response by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to vulnerable Roma groups in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia.

Confronting a Hidden Disease: TB in Roma Communities
January 2007
This OSI report outlines the available literature on Roma and TB in Central and Eastern Europe, and current efforts to address TB in Roma communities.

Civil Society Perspectives on TB Policy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Thailand
November 2006
This series of reports, by OSI's Public Health Watch, highlights how TB, HIV/AIDS, and poverty combine to cause almost two million preventable deaths every year.

HIV and TB: Amina's Story
 SLIDESHOW  
This series of photographs was taken in Tanzania for OSI as part of an advocacy campaign to highlight community-based health care in action.

Request for Letters of Intent: Community-Led Monitoring and Advocacy on TB/HIV Policies and Programs in East and Southern Africa
August 26, 2008
OSI's Public Health Watch seeks organizations in East and Southern Africa for a grant to support efforts to reduce the burden of TB in people living with HIV.

Current Efforts to Control Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant TB Are Failing, Say Advocates
Press Release
November 8, 2007
Current approaches to diagnosing and treating tuberculosis are ineffective and do not reach the majority of people with drug-resistant TB, according to public health advocates—including OSI—meeting this week at the World Conference on Lung Health.

Promoting Public Health and Human Rights in Multidrug-Resistant TB Care
Paris, France
October 17, 2008
OSI and the World Health Organization sponsored a discussion on the ethical and human rights challenges presented by the growing epidemic of multidrug-resistant TB.

Time for Change: New Approaches for Managing Drug-Resistant TB in Regions with High HIV Rates
Cape Town, South Africa
November 9, 2007
Co-sponsored by OSI's Public Health Program, this meeting highlighted the urgent imperative to explore novel approaches to diagnosing and treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa and other regions with high HIV rates.

Fighting TB in the European Region
Berlin, Germany
October 21, 2007
OSI’s Public Health Watch and Roma Health Program brought together leading organizations and activists from across the region for a meeting on the role of civil society and affected communities in the fight against TB.