Project Activities and Achievements in South Africa, 2007

URC TB projects in Swaziland include TASC2 TB and 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)
URC provided technical assistance to the National TB Control Program (NTCP) to develop and implement:

• National TB Crisis Plan
• National Strategic Plan for 2007-2015
• National Advocacy, Communication, Social Mobilization Strategy for TB
• Revised MDR TB Guidelines and recording and reporting tools
• National TB Guidelines
• Revised TB registers which include HIV data
• Infection Control Training Modules
• IEC materials including workplace materials and pamphlets on TB-HIV relationship
  

QAP worked with provincial health offices to improve operational policies and guidelines so that HIV-positive patients are routinely screened for TB and TB patients are tested for HIV. The project trained health care providers to improve skills in identifying and managing TB-HIV co-infected patients. As shown in the figure at left, screening and detection of TB among HIV-positive patients has significantly improved. Referral of TB patients for HIV testing has also continued to increase, although at a slower pace, it is now above 75%.  

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