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Rapid Assessment Tool for TB/HIV Integration and Scale Name of your organisation Location 1. Do you currently have any funding focussing on TB or HIV/TB? Please enumerate them as below Donor
Amount
When is the grant ending?
2. Focus population Which of the following populations at risk of TB is your organisation currently working with? Persons living with HIV Yes
No
Prisoners Yes
People who use drugs Yes
No
Homeless, mobile populations No
Yes
No
Women and children Yes
No
Refugees or internally displaced Yes
No
Miners Yes
No
Other people in congregate Yes No settings Please specify if yes
With which of the above population/s could your organisation expand TB activities? 3. Which one of the following TB activities is your organisation performing? (If yes, please indicate if you have a system of knowing how many of the patients referred get the TB screening and access TB treatment)
Domain
Activity
Case detection
Community-based screening of TB symptoms (using simple verbal or written questionnaire)
Yes
No
Community-based sputum collection
Yes
No
Referrals for HIV patients for TB screening
Yes
No
Contact tracing of household contacts of TB patients
Yes
No
Tracking lost-to-follow up TB patients
Yes
No
Community-based isoniazid preventive therapy
Yes
No
Infection control
TB infection control activities (hygiene, cough etiquette, MDR centres, etc.)
Yes
No
Treatment
Providing TB treatment
Yes
No
Referring TB cases for treatment elsewhere
Yes
No
Community-based support for TB adherence (e.g. DOTS)
Yes
No
Treatment support
IEC and BCC
Nutritional support for TB patients
Yes
No
Posters or educational materials with either TB or both TB and HIV messages
Yes
No
Community-based advocacy for TB or TB/HIV (e.g. to combat TB stigma)
Yes
No
Media TB or TB/HIV BCC activities
Yes
No
Please add additional related activities which may not be captured above below (e.g. HIV testing of TB patients) 4. Partnerships Please fill in the following partnership mapping Who are your national/ governmental partners? (e.g. national TB programme, State or Federal Ministry)
Who are your non-governmental partners?
Who are your local community-based partners?
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Please give examples of activities, task forces, working groups, committees or projects in TB or TB/HIV that your organisation is part of National level
Sub-national level
Community level
Who are the main funders of TB or TB/HIV work in your country?
Who are the main recipient NGO recipients of TB or TB/HIV grants?
Who are the other significant recipients of TB or TB/HIV funding in your country?
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5. Environment
For each of the above, please indicate who could be your complementary and potential partners for different proposals, either focussing on regions or populations List here, including funding source (e.g. TB Reach, TB CAP, IQC, GFATM)
List here, including potential interventions, region or population
List here
6. Monitoring of TB/HIV integration Which indicators does your organisation currently use to monitor integration of TB into HIV programmes? List here Are the above indicators consistent with the GFATM and WHO approved indicators?
Yes
No
7. Capacity Does your organisation have known capacity gaps in the following areas which are hindering TB integration into your programmes? Please indicate what they are e.g. TB programming, technical knowledge, advocacy 8. Strategic direction Does your organisation have in place a local TB strategy which supports the integration of TB/HIV activities? Yes Please elaborate briefly here how the strategy supports mainstreaming of TB work into current programming
For more information contact: Gitau Mburu Senior Advisor, Health Systems and Services gmburu@aidsalliance.org
Renato Pinto Senior Advisor, Technical Cooperation Unit rpinto@aidsalliance.org
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