Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015

Details for Mechanism ID: 12109
Country/Region: Malawi
Year: 2010
Main Partner: Not Available
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

TBD NARRATIVE

The TB-CAP Program will end in September 2010, but there remains a great need to provide technical

assistance and focused support to the national TB program (NTP), including strengthening of TB/HIV activities. In 2010 a new bilateral cooperative agreement will be competed that will be funded mainly with USAID child survival resources earmarked for TB, but also complemented with HIV resources to help address specific TB/HIV priorities. During technical assistance visits in 2009 from TB technical experts from both HHS/CDC and USAID HQ, it was recommended that the USG continue to provide support for TB/HIV activities through a broader TB agreement.

The input and active involvement of these experts who are familiar with NTP and the country context will be utilized to support the country team in writing the RFA. Efforts will be made to ensure there is no duplication between the proposed TB/HIV activities and the GFATM grant and HHS/CDC funding to NTP through its cooperative agreement with the MOH. TB/HIV activities implemented through this new bilateral agreement will be highly complementary. This will draw on progress made during a recent TA visit from HQ, in which the contributions of donors particularly activities financed through the GFATM, in TB were systematically charted in a way that should enable gaps and areas for complementary support to be readily identified.

The technical areas of focus for TB/HIV activities will be: 1) increasing the number of co-infected patients who start HIV treatment (currently less than 40%) by strengthening referrals between TB treatment and ART clinics and 2) intensifying TB case-finding among PLHIV. The project will also link to the zonal mentoring partners implementing PMTCT, and HIV care and treatment, to help facilitate the roll-out of best practices and tools for TB/HIV. Specific interventions and targets will be entered into COPRIIs and can be reviewed by HQ as necessary, once the RFA is drafted.

PFIP Year 1 Budget - Redacted PFIP Year 2 Budget - Redacted

Funding for Care: TB/HIV (HVTB): $0

TBD NARRATIVE

The TB-CAP Program will end in September 2010, but there remains a great need to provide technical assistance and focused support to the national TB program (NTP), including strengthening of TB/HIV activities. In 2010 a new bilateral cooperative agreement will be competed that will be funded mainly with USAID child survival resources earmarked for TB, but also complemented with HIV resources to help address specific TB/HIV priorities. During technical assistance visits in 2009 from TB technical experts from both HHS/CDC and USAID HQ, it was recommended that the USG continue to provide support for TB/HIV activities through a broader TB agreement.

The input and active involvement of these experts who are familiar with NTP and the country context will be utilized to support the country team in writing the RFA. Efforts will be made to ensure there is no duplication between the proposed TB/HIV activities and the GFATM grant and HHS/CDC funding to NTP through its cooperative agreement with the MOH. TB/HIV activities implemented through this new bilateral agreement will be highly complementary. This will draw on progress made during a recent TA visit from HQ, in which the contributions of donors particularly activities financed through the GFATM, in TB were systematically charted in a way that should enable gaps and areas for complementary support to be readily identified.

The technical areas of focus for TB/HIV activities will be: 1) increasing the number of co-infected patients who start HIV treatment (currently less than 40%) by strengthening referrals between TB treatment and ART clinics and 2) intensifying TB case-finding among PLHIV. The project will also link to the zonal mentoring partners implementing PMTCT, and HIV care and treatment, to help facilitate the roll-out of best practices and tools for TB/HIV. Specific interventions and targets will be entered into COPRIIs and can be reviewed by HQ as necessary, once the RFA is drafted.

PFIP Year 1 Budget - Redacted PFIP Year 2 Budget - Redacted