Enhancing Quality of Tuberculosis Care in the Private Health Care Setting)
- A public –private mix (PPM) TB care and prevention initiative (EQUALTIPS)
- Currently funded by USAID through CHS and the TB-ARC project/self-financing through sale of anti –TB drugs using a social business model
- Intended to enhance quality of TB care by private health care providers and to promote recording and reporting of TB cases by these providers
Community TB Prevention and Care project
- Intended to reduce treatment interruption and thus TB treatment success rate through community based approaches
- Also supports community TB case finding primarily through community based contact investigation
- Funded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria ( GFATM or the Global Fund) through AMREF
Breath Easy
- An asthma quality of care enhancing project
- Includes the Asthma Care Improvement Project (ACIP) funded by GSK
- And the social business model that involves sale of asthma medicines
African Severe Asthma Research Project (ASAP)
- Broad aim is to characterize (phenotype) patients with severe asthma
- Clinical, spirometry, eosinophil count, helminthic infestation, HIV status and genetic analysis
KIC TB