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Tackling TB and HIV Together in Papua New Guinea

Past project

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a low-level mixed HIV epidemic and the highest HIV incidence and prevalence in the Pacific region. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health threat in PNG with a high incidence rate (432 per 100,000) and a rapid rise of multi-drug resistant/rifampicin resistant TB (MDR-RR- TB).

Burnet Institute is the sub-recipient to World Vision on a grant to support priorities and interventions in alignment with the National STI and HIV Strategy 2018–2022 and the National Tuberculosis Strategic Plan 2015–2020.

The grant implements in 3 provinces:

  • East New Britain
  • New Ireland
  • West New Britain.

The principles of implementation are:

  • integration
  • task shifting/sharing (involving community)
  • provincial implementation in line with the existing decentralised model (national health plan)
  • policy guidance and technical support through national level.

Objective

The main project objectives are to:

  • increase the TB case notification rate for bacteriologically confirmed, new and relapse cases, from 43 per 100,000 population in 2013 to 93 per 100,000 population in 2020
  • increase the TB treatment success rate of bacteriologically confirmed new TB cases from 68 percent in 2012 to 88% in 2020
  • increase the coverage of HIV testing of TB pa1ents from <25 percent in 2013 to >90 percent in 2020
  • 70% of PLHIV know their status by 2020
  • 70% of PLHIV are accessing antiretroviral therapy by 2020
  • 90% of PLHIV on ART have a suppressed viral load within 12 months of commencing ART by 2020
  • contribute in ensuring uninterrupted supply of drugs and medical products for Malaria, TB and HIV programs through effective operationalisation of m-Supply, a Logistics Management Information System (LMIS), among existing and expansion sites in 2017 and 2020 respectively
  • initiate pilot TBHIV programs within local communities to reduce the burden of TBHIV transmission
  • promote and strengthen TBHIV infrastructure with respective provincial health authorities, stakeholders and NGOs

Timeline

2018–2022.

Partners

Funding partners

Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Collaborators

  • National Department of Health, Papua New Guinea
  • World Vision (Principal Recipient)
  • New Ireland Provincial Health Authority (NIPHA)
  • West New Britain Provincial Health Authority (WBPHA)
  • East New Britain Provincial Health Authority (ENBPHA)
  • World Health Organization

Project contacts

Kate Mills

Kate Mills

Research Officer
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Project team

Associate Professor Suman  Majumdar

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

Chief Health Officer - COVID & Health Emergencies; Deputy Program Director, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness; Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Shahidul Islam

Dr Shahidul Islam

TB Specialist-Public Health
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Kate Mills

Kate Mills

Research Officer
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