Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 10900
Country/Region: Cambodia
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Strategic Information (HVSI): $0

Quality control retesting of a sample of IBBS specimens. In FY 09-10, the National Center for HIV/AIDS,

Dermatology and STDs (NCHADS) Surveillance Unit, with USG support, will conduct an integrated

biological-behavioral sentinel survey (IBBS) in 5 priority provinces (Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham,

Battambang, Sihanoukville, and Banteay Meanchey) among three target populations: female sex workers,

police (a sentinel group which has served as a proxy for clients of female sex workers in several previous

Cambodian surveys), and men who have sex with men (MSM). To determine the prevalence of three

bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), biological specimens (blood, swabs, and urine) will be tested

for Treponema pallidum, Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT). These tests will be

performed by a local laboratory, but quality control retesting of a 10-20% sample of specimens will be

performed by an outside laboratory (e.g., in the US or Thailand) for NG and CT. The laboratory to be

determined will be selected based on its recognition as a high quality reference laboratory with the capacity

to provide "gold standard" results for purposes of evaluating IBBS test performance. Additional criteria will

include logistics of shipping specimens, projected turn around time, and cost.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

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