Fighting to close the GAP on global pediatric TB care

Building upon the energy of Global TB Program staff members and with nearly a decade of robust TB experience and innovation, the Global TB Program was most recently awarded a five-year, $5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant that will operate from September 2020 through September 2025. This five year project, “Closing – TB GAPS – for people living with HIV: TB Guidance for Adaptable Patient-centered Services” (TB GAPS), will focus on finding and preventing TB in children and youth, while simultaneously determining the most cost-effective prevention strategy and promoting best practices to sustain the impact of our work. TB GAPS will work in five high TB, high HIV burden sub-Saharan African (SSA) CDC priorities countries – Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda – and aims to generate evidence to inform interventions targeting weaknesses within the TB and TB/HIV cascades of care.