Community Contribution
The Consortium – Harbinger of Collaborative Transformation of Private Sector Healthcare in the Philippines
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In the Philippines, one in three Filipinos prefers private providers for tuberculosis (TB) care despite free government services. However, primary TB diagnostic tests like GeneXpert® MTB/Rif, are limited and expensive in the private sector, and clients incur catastrophic costs from private care. To address this inequity and ensure patient-centric TB testing, TBIHSS project supported establishing the Philippine Private Sector Diagnostics Consortium (Consortium), a collective public-private response that leverages innovative approaches and strategic partnerships to procurement and service delivery in the private sector.