Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TB CAP)

TB CAP is a Coalition of partners with KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation as the prime and six other organizations as subs including American Thoracic Society (ATS), Family Health International (FHI), the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Japanese Anti-Tuberculosis Association (JATA), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), World Health Organization (WHO).

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is a member of the Coalition for coordinating purposes but funds can not flow through this mechanism.

The focus of TB CAP is to decrease TB morbidity and mortality in USAID priority TB countries through improving case detection and treatment success.

There are five key technical areas including: 1) Increased political commitment for DOTS implementation using evidence-based approaches; 2) Strengthened and expanded DOTS programs, especially to the underserved population; 3) Increased public and private sector participation in DOTS implementation; 4) Increased and strengthened TB and HIV/AIDS coordinated and collaborative activities; 5) Improved TB human and institutional capacity for sustainable TB programs.

In addition, TB CAP will assist countries to scale-up country programs to provide national DOTS coverage, apply lessons learned and state-of-the-art approaches, leverage resources to increase impact through collaboration and coordination, integrate TB programs into health systems, and improve the gender, equity and equality of program activities.