TB SCOUT & TREAT - TB Screening through Community OUTreaches, TRacing and Enhanced Access to Treatment
South Sudan
Status
ImplementationAid type
Project-type interventionsSouth Sudan
Location
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€ 480,000
Committed
Committed
€ 336,000
Used
Used
Description
The project pursues the specific objective of maximizing health integrated systems (e.g., facility-based care and community health programs), which are centered around people regardless of their risk or marginalized status, to ensure impact, resilience, and sustainability. The consortium intends to achieve this objective by improving access, fruition and quality of TB community and diagnostic services in the intervention areas, especially in favor of vulnerable and at-risk groups (Outcome 1). The initiative is articulated into 4 activities, which are designed to address the above-mentioned needs by taking into account the challenges listed earlier on. Activity 1.1 foresees the conduction of TB screening and ACF campaigns at community level, by prioritizing Key & Vulnerable Populations (KVPs). It is specific investment into ACF strategies (1st need), through which the existing community health programs are activated in order to effectively contribute to the fight against TB, by extending reach and coverage of TB case finding across the intervention areas. The prioritization of KVPs will ensure that these groups will be systematically included in outreach screening activities, thus reducing their marginalization and vulnerability towards the disease (2nd need). The activity will generate an increment of presumptive TB cases which need investigation. At this stage, Activity 1.2 kicks in. it is designed to strengthen TB diagnostic services and access to quality treatment at the targeted health facilities. Thanks to a series of actions to strengthen and streamline the collection and transportation of samples, to improve skills among clinical and laboratory staff, to uplift diagnostic quality, the targeted health facilities will be able to provide expanded and more accurate diagnostic and curative capacity (3rd need) to respond to the expected increment in presumptive TB cases generated by Activity 1.1 and by the conduction of Facility-Based ACF activities within the health centers (1st need). Overall, this will bring about an increase of TB confirmed and notified cases – which eventually will be registered and initiated on treatment. In order to further contribute to this process, Activity 1.3 will strengthen TB tracing activities, first and foremost by relying on the reach of the existing community health programs and by focusing on tracing contacts of index cases. Among the latter higher are the chances of identifying new TB cases – which, in the absence of tracing systems, would hardly be intercepted and found (1st need). Finally, Activity 1.4 comprises of impact and cost evaluations pertaining to the strategies adopted within the project. The findings of these rigorous evaluations, besides providing valuable information for a more successful implementation of the initiative as it is being carried out, will offer evidence on the convenience and effectiveness of those strategies. Hopefully this will help in securing the continuation and scale up of these interventions beyond the official end of the project. The increase in TB cases which are detected, confirmed, notified and, eventually, started on treatment will mean that local communities will have concretely benefitted from greater access to and quality of TB services (Result 1). Consequently, the TB burden will have reduced, to the benefit of the entire population (impact). The project targets the entire population residing within the intervention areas and aims at directly benefitting over 17,660 individuals. However, mentioned earlier, the consortium does prioritize specific groups which are deemed key and vulnerable (KVP) – i.e., prisoners, uniformed personnel, children. Moreover, some subactivities are earmarked to community health volunteers, health workers and laboratory technicians.
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| Year | Committed | Used |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | € 480,000 | € 336,000 |
Agency
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| Government | AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development | 11000 |
Channel reported
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| International NGO | AMREF HEALTH AFRICA ONG/ON | 21045 |
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