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The Partnership Pathway: how it nearly fell apart

The First Mile of a partnership — choosing membership, agreeing on a genuinely shared goal, setting governance, clarifying roles — is the stage that does not come round again. The tuberculosis partnership in Peru handled much of it well, with five core organizations and a defined job for each. What stayed vague was how those roles worked day to day among individuals, and that gap surfaced later as planning on the fly, inconsistent communication, and too little investment in management.

Also covered: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis · Paul Farmer · Partners in Health · Socios en Salud · Mark Rosenberg · Green Light Committee