Involving the Community in Responding to TB/HIV: Outcomes of Community-Led Monitoring and Advocacy

Public Health Watch, a project of the Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute, aims to strengthen meaningful and sustained engagement by infected and affected communities in the development, implementation, and monitoring of TB and HIV policies, programs, and practices. Public Health Watch supports advocates to identify, document, and articulate priority human rights issues, and to press for accountability at the national, regional, and global levels. Public Health Watch believes engaged, well-informed individuals and community groups are needed to ensure that government policies really live up to the commitments made at the international level; to scrutinize whether and how policies and guidance are implemented; and to point out where the numbers may not reflect the full reality on the ground.