Engagement of the private pharmaceutical sector for TB control: rhetoric or reality?

Table 5 NTP Strategy or Action Plans

	% of private expenditure on health^a	National strategic plan version	Private retail drug outlet engagement in strategy	Professional pharmacy association engagement in strategy^b
Cambodia	79.5	2014–2020	X
Afghanistan	78.8	2013–2017	X
Nigeria	76.1	2015–2020	X
Myanmar	72.8	2016–2020	X
Philippines	68.4	2013–2016	X
India	67.8	2012–2017	X
Bangladesh	64.7	2015–2020	X	X
United Republic of Tanzania	63.7	2010–2015	X
Pakistan	63.2	2015-2020	X
Indonesia	61.0	2015–2019	X	X
Kenya	58.3	2015–2018	X
Vietnam	58.1	2011–2015	X
Uganda	55.6	2015–2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo	46.9	2014–2017

^aPrivate expenditure on health as a percentage of total expenditure on health. WHO (2013) [18]
^bOnly if ‘pharmacy association’ was explicitly mentioned in the strategy instead of the generic term ‘professional association’

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