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Global Tuberculosis:Developing,Evaluating,Implementing Evidence-based and Innovative Approaches to Find, Cure, and Prevent Tuberculosis Globally

$10,964,286

Total Assistance, FY 2008 to Present
Agency: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Assistance Type: Not Applicable
Assistance Listing Number
93.494

Objectives: CDC’s global health priorities include efforts towards ending the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by: expanding access to improved screening, contact tracing, and diagnostic tools to find the missing TB cases (FIND); optimizing treatment for TB and multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB, including identifying and evaluating better treatment regimens, and expanding access to care and treatment (CURE); breaking the cycle of TB transmission by strengthening infection control, identifying TB hotspots to target screening, and scaling-up treatment to prevent TB (PREVENT); and helping countries strengthen their surveillance and laboratory systems, and workforce and research capacity to support sustainable health systems including promoting the wider use and adoption of recommended TB strategies and guidelines (SUSTAIN).

 
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