Strengthening TB/HIV activities in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

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The purpose of this program is to strengthen collaboration between Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV programs in Central Asia in order to prevent the widescale spread of a dual HIV/TB epidemic in the region. Increased collobaration between these programs is needed to deliver comprehensive, high-quality, accessible, patient-centered prevention, care and support services to people infected or suscepted to be infected by both HIV and TB. This award will support pilot sites to demonstrate integration of TB and HIV acitivities to prevent TB/HIV co-infection and/or to demonstrate optimal treatment of patients infected with both TB and HIV. The grantee will not be responsible, however, for national scale-up of a TB/HIV program in the region. Pilot sites should represent differing epidemiologic or clinical sites, representative of sites found in the countries, and may include more than one oblast in each country. Applicants are encouraged to submit a work plan for as many countries as possible, however, the country assignment and activity will be determined at the time of the award.

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