CORE HIV/AIDS Working Group TB-HIV Co-infection Technical Update

TB-HIV Co-infection Technical Update December 16, 2004 WorldVision Conference Center, 300 I street NE, Washington, DC Target audience: PVO health program staff working in child survival, maternal and neonatal health, HIV/AIDS, TB and other related areas. Goal: To raise awareness of the major issues relevant to designing and implementing interventions dealing with HIV-TB co-infection. Objectives: By the end of the activity participants will be able to: Articulate some of the major issues around TB-HIV co-infection, such as global epidemiologic trends, the fundamentals of WHO’s strategic framework to decrease the burden of TB/HIV, and some practical challenges to detection and treatment of co-infected populations. Describe some of the major issues around designing and implementing community-based programs that deal with TB-HIV co-infection such as HIV testing and counseling among TB patients and vice versa, stigma around TB and HIV/AIDS, community based Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) and Directly Observed Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (DAART) interventions. Moderator: Rob Northrup PowerPoint: Meeting Outline TB-HIV Co-infection Overview - Clydette Powell PowerPoint Addressing HIV within from a TB program perspective - Christine Whalen PowerPoint Addressing TB from an HIV program perspective - Mukadi Ya Diul PowerPoint Case Study 1: Stigma and Adherence Christy Hansen - PATH; experience working with FHI in Cambodia, focusing on their experience addressing stigma and its impact on adherence to TB prophylaxis and treatment. PowerPoint Case Study 2: Service Integration and Referrals Naomi Rutenberg - Population Council; Horizons study in Uganda that examined the effect of a simple package of integration interventions on the extent to which tuberculosis clients receive HIV counseling and testing, as well as the extent to which AIDS care clients receive TB counseling, and whether this counseling resulted into referral for another service. PowerPoint Case Study 3: Laboratory Services Christine Whalen - Management Sciences for Health; Necessary laboratory support for interventions addressing HIV-TB co-infection. PowerPoint