Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 12350
Country/Region: Vietnam
Year: 2010
Main Partner: Not Available
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0

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

May 2010 Programming = REDACTED

PEPAR has been supported the National TB program (NTP) of Vietnam to provide HIV counseling and testing following

model of provider initiated counseling and testing (PITC) to active TB patients in the last five years. It has showed that this

activity is well accepted by NTP staff and TB patients as more than 95% of the TB patients accepted PITC in the PEPFAR-

supported sites. PITC has helped to diagnose 6% of HIV positive among TB patients who can be referred to HIV care and

treatment services after PITC. In the approval COP10, 30,000 more TB patients will receive PITC in the total of 70,000 TB

patients in the plan. Objectives of this support are to increase number of TB patients receiving PITC and to strengthen

collaboration between TB and HIV program in providing care and treatment to HIV-infected TB patients. PEPFAR will provide

trainings, test kits, quality assuarance and support for NTP staff in order to assure consistence and high quality of PITC

activities to more TB patients in 20-25 more provinces. This activity will support to improve quality of the TB/HIV

collaboration committee in those provinces, the best use the committee is to increase successful referral of HIV-infected TB

patients between the two programs for better outcomes of HIV and TB care and treatment. Innovative models to track and

enhance these referrals will be developed. Developing, implementing and evaluating these models will be built into

provincial TBHIV work plans.