About KNCV (Koninklijke Nederlandse Centrale Vereniging) Tuberculosis
A non-profit organisation, dedicated to fighting tuberculosis (tb) and related health issues.
KNCV works with other TB programmes, governments, civil society, academia and foundations.
KNCV specializes in:
- TB surveillance & surveillance systems
- Epidemiological modelling
- Mobile/digital health solutions
- Health system strengthening (human resources, medical education, e-learning/blended learning)
- Decentralized financing of TB programming
- Increasing access to vulnerable groups, addressing stigma & discrimination
- Project management
Purpose: To contribute to a world free of tbc and related health issues.
Mission: to save lives and end human suffering via promoting health and global elimination of tbc and related health issues.
Vision: accelerate the global fight against tbc & related health issues, by catalysing uptake & scale-up of innovation, people-centered and country-led action, equal-alliance networks and diversified fundings.
Collaborations with GHH-partners
AMR Global: Connected via the GLORIA program: two representatives on the steering group.
AIGHD, TNO, Health~Holland: all part of AMR Global.
Radboudumc: co created PhotoVoices (anti-stigma project & exhibition)
Erasmus MC: co-organized European training course on clinical TB
Delft Imaging (Delft Care): implemented CAD4TB AI software from Delft imaging in programs and showcases field use.
Aidsfonds, Cordaid: joint advocacy for increased Dutch contributions to Global Fund.
Amref Health Africa, Cordaid, KIT, Wemos, aidsfonds: together they form Dutch Global Health Alliance, collaboration in national debates and policy dialogues on global health.
KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen): co hosted event on Health & Prosperity together with Gates Foundation and Philips
Philips: cited by KIT as ‘actively engaged together with KNCV’ in ‘health & prosperity’ policy events.
Overview of characteristics
Active in countries
- Nigeria:
- leading a 14-state TB program to expand screening, diagnosis, treatment and notification. Targets 437,895 cases over 5 years.
- Jensen Paediatric TB surge (5 months) to rapidly increase childhood TB diagnosis.
- ‘Stop TB partnership’: funded introduction of software platform Aspect and connections with diagnostic instruments (TrueNat) for improved monitoring, data flow, program management
- TIFA grants (USAID Global Accelerator): TB Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA) pilots on contact investigation (TBCI-STOM, TB Contact Investigation using Spot To Tent Onion Model) & private-sector social franchising (SOFT_CIP, Social Franchising as a Sustainable Tool for TB Contact Investigation in Private Sector).
- Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Ukraine, Indonesia, Mozambique, Vietnam, Nigeria: ASCENT (dherence Support Coalition to End TB, smart pill boxes & medication labels) to support patients to access and adhere to treatment instead of not finishing treatment and cause further spreading of TB.
Community of Practices (CoP)
CoP2: Pandemic Preparedness
Themes and subthemes within CoP
Global access to diagnostics and medicines: KNCV builds TB diagnostics & supply chain systems.
AMR & Zoonotic diseases: deep TB expertise, fits the broader AMR agenda
Health-system embedding & scale up of innovations: implementing diagnostics & vaccines in health systems
Multi-sectoral & global collaboration in LMIC’s: KNCV emphasizes working across institutes, ministries to strengthen preparedness
Type of organization:
NGO
Available resources
Knowledge & expertise: TB-work, inherently about health systems, diagnostics, supply chains, communities. AMR
Networks: Global partnerships (governments, NGO’s, academia, donors), hub membership. See also ‘collaborations’ and ‘active in countries’
Influence/agenda setting: positioning TB infrastructure as a model for pandemic preparedness, shaping policy around AMR
Financial leverage/access to funding: participation in donor-funded programmes like ASCENT (funded by Unitaid)
Coordination & platform capability: ability to convene multiple stakeholders and integrate diagnostics/supply chains/communities