The Tuberculosis Local Organization Network (TB LON) activity

The Tuberculosis Local Organization Network (TB LON) activity is 5-year project that is tailored to expand priority TB interventions in Lusaka and Southern Provinces, complementing other USAID TB activities that have focused in the northern parts of the country.

At the national level, TB LON will support the NTP in cross cutting areas including training and mentorship, patient information systems (including lab information), domestic resource mobilization, operations research and commodity management. At provincial, district, facility and community levels LON will strengthen case finding and treatment.

The project shall drive activities to improve TB case detection in health facilities; according to the National TB Prevalence Survey (2013-2014) majority of cases detected in the survey had previously been missed at a health facility.

The project will utilize a facility-community mix with community case detection in identified hotspots and among key vulnerable populations such as miners and their communities, children and inmates. The project will strengthen linkages between community and facility case finding.