TB CARE II is excited to announce a new project in Vietnam. With support from URC and Partners In Health, the National TB Program in Vietnam will introduce the FAST strategy to reduce TB transmission among both health care workers and patients in the healthcare facilities and in the community. FAST, an innovative approach
The TB CARE II Project organized a workshop entitled Exploring the promise of improving access and delivery of TB services through insurance-based financing reforms in Bangkok, Thailand from September 18 -20, 2014. The workshop provided a forum for information sharing and review of current systems for ensuring access to, and provision of, essential TB services and
TB CARE II recently hosted a technical meeting on TB infection control in September 2016 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Them meeting reviewed lessons learned from implementation of the FAST strategy, an innovative method of TB and MDR TB case finding in hospital and clinic settings, to reduce nosocomial TB and MDR TB transmission. TB CARE II
The FAST strategy is mainly implemented at specialized and general hospitals with TB units. With support from the USAID TB CARE II Project, the Vietnam NTP developed the “Guideline for FAST strategy implementation”. According to the Guideline, implementing facilities should immediately order GeneXpert MTB/RIF tests for eligible patients including: Pulmonary TB patients AFB(+), presumptive drug-resistant
The Union World Conference on Lung Health continues to be the largest gathering of clinicians and public health professionals, program managers, policymakers, researchers, and advocates working to end the suffering caused by TB and other lung diseases. The 48th annual conference, held in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 11-14, 2017, continued this tradition with fruitful
The U.S. Government has released the "National Action Plan for Combating MDR-TB" in order to address the leading infectious cause of death in the world. The goals of the five-year National Action Plan (NAP) are to: Strengthen domestic capacity to combat MDR-TB Improve international capacity and collaboration to combat MDR-TB Acceleratebasciand applied research and
