Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TB CAP)
Project Date: 2005–2010
The Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TBCAP) aims to decrease morbidity and mortality by increasing case detection and treatment success of pulmonary TB patients in USAID priority countries. TBCAP is USAID’s five year centrally funded project focusing on implementing WHO’s Stop TB strategy. MSH is one of eight partners, including KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, WHO, The International Union Against Tuberculosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family Health International, American Thoracic Society, and the Japanese Anti-Tuberculosis Association. TBCAP recently introduced the Management and Organizational Sustainability Tool (MOST) process it has adapted to the TB context. A meeting sponsored by TBCAP for personnel from National Tuberculosis Programs in Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, and Pakistan gave managers hands-on experience using MOST and allowed TBCAP to validate the instrument as adapted for TB.
Within TBCAP, MSH makes a unique contribution for addressing constraints such as poor management and lack of sustainable leadership, weak laboratory services and failure of drug supplies, inconsistent drug quality and inadequate drug policies, lacking information systems, weak monitoring and evaluation, and overwhelmed health systems. Through core-funded activities, MSH contributes to TBCAP by aiding in the development and implementation of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care TB control, guidelines for TB control in prisons, and institutional capacity building. MSH also provides workshops and training for lab consultants, human resource development strengthening, and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) management.
MSH is making important contributions as coordinating partner for Malawi and Ghana for expanding quality DOTS and is currently collaborating in South Sudan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, and Namibia.
Within TBCAP, MSH makes a unique contribution for addressing constraints such as poor management and lack of sustainable leadership, weak laboratory services and failure of drug supplies, inconsistent drug quality and inadequate drug policies, lacking information systems, weak monitoring and evaluation, and overwhelmed health systems. Through core-funded activities, MSH contributes to TBCAP by aiding in the development and implementation of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care TB control, guidelines for TB control in prisons, and institutional capacity building. MSH also provides workshops and training for lab consultants, human resource development strengthening, and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) management.
MSH is making important contributions as coordinating partner for Malawi and Ghana for expanding quality DOTS and is currently collaborating in South Sudan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, and Namibia.