TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through a competitive process, plans to invest in a five-year cooperative agreement entitled, "TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening" that aims to strengthen national and regional level implementation of the National TB Strategic Plan by providing state-of-the-art capacity building and technical expertise to scale-up TB and DR-TB prevention, detection and treatment. The "TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening" activity will identify and help implement proven approaches to improve TB prevention, increase TB case detection rates, decrease default rates, and increase TB treatment success rates and TB cure rates.