Technical Assistance Services and Programmatic Support to Address National TB Program Needs and Priorities Towards Their Efforts to End TB

Fight Against TB. Recipient(s) will implement activities focused on TB screening and case finding, strengthening TB treatment delivery, TB infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, provision of TB preventive treatment (TPT), and incorporate efforts to reduce barriers such as stigma and discrimination, through evidence-based interventions for TB affected people.All activities will be informed by a health equity approach, focusing on groups at higher risk for TB, including household contacts of people with TB, children and adolescents, people living with HIV (PLHIV), health care workers, migrants, mobile/displaced populations, and those who work or reside in crowded/congregate settings (criminal justice facilities, mines, etc.). The recipient(s) will advance global TB elimination goals over the award period by strengthening data-informed decision making, harmonizing efforts among partner organizations, and improving partner governments’ capacity to implement and oversee TB program delivery.