Advocacy

The National TB Control Program (NTCP), based on the internationally recommended Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy, was launched in 1997 and it expanded across the country in a phased manner with support from the World Bank and other development partners.

The objectives of the program are:

• To achieve and maintain TB case detection of at least 70% of the estimated NSP cases in the community.

• To achieve and maintain TB treatment success rate of at least 85% among New Sputum Positive (NSP) patients

Files: 

ANNUAL TB PROGRAM REPORT 2014.pdf

The implementation of prevention and treatment and care components of the HIV program has resulted in a number of results. In terms of prevention; the Service Availability Mapping 2013 shows that HTC coverage has increased from 76% in 2008 to 92% in 2013, 150 facilities in 2010 to162 in 2013 for PMTCT and 24 in 2010 to 45 in 2013 facilities providing VMMC.

Files: 

ANNUAL HIV PROGRAMS REPORT 2014.pdf

The HIV prevention policy provides direction and guidelines on the HIV prevention programme implementation and on the response management to an extensive range of stakeholders, which includes policymakers, managers, programmers and implementers, taking into consideration the risk factors to infection and the key drivers to the epidemic.

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PreventionPolicy.PDF