Implementing Partners
USAID implements its foreign assistance
activities by utilizing the expertise of other key Federal
agencies, as well as contributing to programs or purchasing
services of U.S. organizations and companies. USAID utilizes
cooperative agreements and contracts to achieve results
that contribute to the agency's performance goals. USAID
also partners with international organizations to implement
global health activities. In addition to partnering directly
with international organizations to accomplish specific
objectives, USAID collaborates and coordinates with other
donor organizations in the field to maximize the effectiveness
of its global health programs.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
USAID's collaboration with the CDC focuses on multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, TB-HIV, infection control, childhood TB and training in operations research.
- Child Survival & Health Grants Program
USAID provides grants to U.S.-based Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) for TB activities in developing countries.
- Gorgas
TB Initiative
USAID works with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Alabama to implement activities to carry out operations research in MDR TB, TB-HIV, new diagnostic approaches, and models for involving hospitals and DOTS.
- International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD)
With USAID funding, IUATLD carries out research on new TB treatment regimens, methods to improve lab diagnosis of TB, and operations research for care of persons co-infected with TB and HIV.
- MEASURE
Evaluation
In December 2002, with USAID core funding, MEASURE Evaluation in collaboration with WHO/STOP TB, established a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) TB working group to ensure collaboration on TB indicators and share expertise in this field. The working group consists of members from STOP TB/WHO, KNCV, the U.S. Government (USG), the Union, Global Drug Facility, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and the World Bank. The first product of this working group was a compendium of TB indicators to enable monitoring and evaluation of National TB Programs.
- National
Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center (NIHFIC)
NIHFIC provides training to foster collaborative, multidisciplinary
research in developing country sites where AIDS, TB, or both are
significant problems. With support from USAID and other partners, NIHFIC
currently provides sub-grants to the Joint Clinical Research Center in
Uganda and the Haitian Study Group on Karposi's Sarcoma and
Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) to carry out these activities.
Research in both countries is focused on the use of antiretroviral
therapy (ART) in treating HIV in HIV/TB co-infected person.
- Quality Assurance/Workforce Development (QA/WD) Project
The QA/WD Project adapts modern quality improvement approaches to the needs of developing country tuberculosis control programs. Improvement interventions focus on areas such as case detection, treatment adherence, laboratory performance and management of care in the commercial private sector.
- Rational
Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus)
RPM Plus assists USAID TB priority countries and other TB
partners by providing training and technical assistance in forecasting,
procurement, distribution and monitoring of use of first and second-line
TB drugs. RPM Plus also conducts assessment and monitoring visits to
GDF (link to GDF) recipients.
- TB Coalition for Technical Assistance (TBCTA)
The TBCTA is a unique partnership of six leading international organizations involved in global TB control with a goal of reducing the global burden of TB and its attendant mortality.
- TB Country Support Contract
This contract with PATH provides technical assistance to strengthen the implementation of Global Fund-supported TB grants, assists countries to design and plan information, education and communication activities related to TB control, and provides technical and management support to on-going USAID-funded tuberculosis program activities at global, regional and country levels.
- Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TB CAP)
(Anticipated Award 9/2005, completion date 09/30/2010)
TB CAP will build and expand upon the work of TBCTA. It will continue to support the areas of political commitment, Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strengthening and expansion and capacity building. In addition, the new project will have a special emphasis on increasing TB/HIV integrated approaches, expanding the involvement of new partners at the country level (especially the private sector), and improving drug management systems. The project will scale up and expand TB control activities to meet the global targets. TB CAP will be a five-year $150 million cooperative agreement. It has been designed to assist with TB/HIV activities under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
- Voice of America
VOA will reach targeted populations in high-TB burden countries with public health messages about TB prevention and control. In addition, VOA will build TB journalistic capacity in other countries, hold workshops with a clear focus on TB prevention, and develop local capacity to produce radio TB programs.
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