Project Activities and Achievements in Lesotho, 2008

URC's TB and HIV/TB projects in Lesotho include the USAID Health Care Improvement Project (formerly the Quality Assurance Project).

Key URC activities and achievements include:

• In collaboration with NTP and other partners, developed National TB Policy and the TB-HIV Strategic Plan.
• Developed and printed recording and reporting materials: TB Register, TB Suspects Register, and MDR/XDR TB registers.
• Trained health facility workers and counselors to provide quality TB and TB/HIV services and to strengthen integrated monitoring tools.
• In 2008, testing of TB patients for HIV has risen from an estimated 19% in 2006 to over 75% of registered TB patients.
• Printed and distributed 35,000 IEC materials on TB and TB-HIV (25,000 in Sesotho and 10,000 in English).
• In collaboration with NTP and WHO, developed and printed TB drug regimens charts for health workers
• Support the Christian Health Association of Lesotho (CHAL) to strengthen TB-HIV activities at six hospitals.

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