Access to prevention and treatment of tuberculosis
Reducing the incidence of TB in Ukraine by expanding and improving access to high-quality tuberculosis prevention and treatment services
Participants:
Doctors, nurses, laboratory specialists, psychologists, infection control experts, labour health and safety engineers, social workers, members of regional monitoring teams, experts of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine and the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine
Partners:
SI “Ukrainian Centre for Social Disease Control of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine”
ICF “Organization for Appropriate Technology in Health” (PATH)
Donor:
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Implementation period:
The second phase of Round 9 in 2013-2014 (the project continues within the framework of Round 10 of the GF Grant)
Purpose of the project:
Reducing the incidence of TB in Ukraine by expanding and improving access to high-quality tuberculosis prevention and treatment services
Aims and objectives:
1. To improve TB diagnosing
2. To increase access to quality services
3. To strengthen the capacity of the healthcare system to respond to the challenges of TB
Results
• Prepared and conducted: 41 training events involving 752 experts as participants of trainings
• 1 international training on quality control in molecular genetic TB tests in tuberculosis institutions of Ukraine, Riga, Latvia.
• 1 annual meeting of the heads of 3-degree laboratories, including laboratories of the Penitentiary Service
• Participation of two national experts in the 35th Annual Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology, Vienna, Austria.
• 6 five-day trainings “Laboratory diagnosing of TB by bacterioscopy. Quality assurance in bacterioscopic tests in laboratories”.
• 4 ten-day trainings “Microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis. Quality assurance in bacteriological research tests”.
• Two five-day train-the-trainer (TTT) sessions on conducting educational events on the topic of “TB case management in accordance with international and national standards and protocols.”
• 3 five-day trainings “Infection Control of TB in TB institutions of Ukraine”.
• 6 five-day trainings “Multi-Resistant TB Case Management in Accordance with International and National Standards and Protocols”.
• 3 five-day trainings “Current Issues of TB-HIV Co-infection Case Management”.
• 6 three-day trainings “Developing Patient Adherence to TB Treatment and Reducing the Stigma towards TB Patients by Applying Effective Communication Techniques and Counselling”.
• 6 five-day training sessions on monitoring and evaluation for national and regional monitoring supervision teams (monitoring units).
• 1 five-day training on monitoring and evaluation for national and regional monitoring supervision teams (monitoring units) for representatives of regional monitoring teams of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (SPS)