Towards universal social protection for people affected by tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a social protection baseline assessment and policy entry points

By identifying concrete policy entry points and actionable solutions, this SP baseline assessment provided a foundation for these five countries to embed social protection more systematically into their national TB responses. Ideally, this effort should now be replicated in all high TB-burden countries willing to achieve universal SP coverage among people affected by TB. The lessons that emerged from this baseline assessment are consistent with the recommended actions and principles underlying the Western Pacific Regional Framework for Reaching the Unreached and are thus transferrable to other diseases of poverty.