TB Platforms for Sustainable Detection, Care and Treatment (TB Platforms)

(Philippines): USAID, through the TB Platforms activity, will strengthen and sustain supportive interventions to increase case detection of TB and drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) and improve treatment success rates. It advances the U.S. government's Global TB Strategy, USAID's Global Accelerator to End TB, and the U.S. priority to defend the U.S. against the spread of deadly infectious diseases. .USAID will support local governments and communities to adapt and recover from the reduction in TB and DR-TB service provision due to COVID-19 by assisting the Department of Health National TB Control Program's Adaptive Plan to COVID-19 and the TB Recovery Plan. USAID will support health providers to adopt high-impact case-finding approaches, contact investigation, and the FAST ("finding cases actively, separating safely, treating effectively") Plus strategy. USAID will increase demand for TB services through social and behavior change activities that: reduce stigma; deploy facility-level quality improvement teams to roll out patient-centered interventions; integrate TB diagnosis and treatment as part of hospital-wide approaches to infection control and case finding; assist local government

Source: IATI activity description, US-GOV-1-72049218CA00005 (2018). The source's own text.