Project Activities and Achievements in Lesotho, 2007

URC TB and HIV/TB projects in Lesotho include the USAID Health Care Improvement Project (formerly the Quality Assurance Project) ( funded by USAID) and Increasing Counseling and Testing and Enhancing HIV/AIDS Communications in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland (funded by the Centers for Disease Control).

Key URC activities include:

• In collaboration with NTP and other partners, developed national TB, TB-HIV, and MDR/XDR TB policies and guidelines including the National TB Policy, TB-HIV Strategy, National TB training guidelines.
• Developed and printed recording and reporting materials: TB registers, MDR/XDR TB registers, patient treatment cards.
• Trained health facility workers and counselors to provide quality TB and TB/HIV services.
• In collaboration with the Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS Directorate, supported training 150 counselors for the new national “Know Your Status” campaign.
• In three URC-supported districts (Buthe, Mohale’s Hoek and Mokhotlong) in 2007, testing of TB patients for HIV has risen from an estimated 10% to over 60% of registered TB patients.
• Printed and distributed 35,000 IEC materials on TB and TB-HIV have been printed (25,000 in Sesotho and 10,000 in English).

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