Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 12975
Country/Region: Botswana
Year: 2013
Main Partner: KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $333,670

The goal of the TB CARE 1 project is to facilitate capacity building, accelerate TB/HIV collaborative activities, support multi-drug resistant (MDR)-TB management, and TB infection Control (IC) by providing long and short term technical assistance to the Botswana National Tuberculosis Program (BNTP) and the National TB Reference Laboratory (NTRL). In addition to providing two long-term advisors, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation headquarters staff provides country visits and administrative support for the Botswana-based staff to ensure high quality technical assistance appropriate to meet the needs of the BNTP. Given the operational challenges faced by the BNTP, the support also strengthens the laboratory services for TB control and program management of patients dually infected with TB/HIV, with or without drug resistant tuberculosis. In partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH), KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation provides support to the NTRL so that it can develop into a well-functioning laboratory, fully equipped and capable of performing the roles and responsibilities needed for supporting excellent clinical management of drug susceptible and resistant TB, routine drug resistance surveillance, and quality assurance of TB microscopy.

Funding for Care: TB/HIV (HVTB): $333,670

KNCV TB CARE I will continue collaboration with the MOH and other partners to improve TB control in Botswana. A Senior Technical Advisor has been placed at the Botswana National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTCP) and will provide support in six technical areas: programmatic management of drug resistant tuberculosis (PMDT); laboratory strengthening; TB/HIV collaborative activities; monitoring and evaluation; community DOTS; and, TB infection control. Laboratory strengthening activities will continue with support from the current Chief Medical Laboratory Technician, who will work closely with MOH staff to further build capacity of the national laboratory network and the NTRL quality management systems. KNCV will provide backstopping visits (two country visits per year by senior international technical advisors) to further provide in-country technical support as well as desk support from The Netherlands and from the Kenya Regional Office for PMDT, M&E, Laboratory strengthening, TB/HIV collaborative activities, Community DOTS, Global Fund TB Round 11 proposal development, and human resources development.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $150,000
Human Resources for Health $150,000
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Tuberculosis