Fhi 360 Tender

Pre-qualification are invited for TB Tele-contact Investigation Coordinator for Metro Manila (2) (TBIHSS). PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening (TBIHSS) project is a 5-year USAID funded project that aims to strengthen national and regional level implementation of the National TB Strategic Plan by providing state-of-the-art capacity building and technical expertise to scale-up TB and DR-TB prevention, detection and treatment. The Project will identify and help implement proven approaches to improve prevention, increase case detection rate, decrease loss to follow-up rate, and increase treatment success and cure rates across the continuum of care. Finding missing patients with tuberculosis (TB) is one of the National TB Control Program’s (NTP) priority interventions to achieve the Philippine Strategic TB Elimination Plan: Phase 1 (PhilSTEP1) vision of a TB-free Philippines by 2035. Large hospitals in highly urbanized cities are generally very busy with large patient load. The 2016 National TB Prevalence Survey (NTPS) showed that CXR is more sensitive than symptom-based screening for TB, 92% vs 32%, respectively. In this regard, FHI360-TB Innovation and Health System Strengthening Project, in coordination with DOH-National TB Control Program; Centers for Health Development in Metro Manila, III and IVA; and targeted six Level 3 hospitals and their attached Local Government Units developed an intensified TB case finding (ICF) model to assist NTP in finding missing TB patients. A screen all strategy will be done in the out-patient department (OPD) and other departments of the above-mentioned hospitals using a mobile digital X-ray with computer assisted chest x-ray reading by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Although the focus of the activity is on case finding, it is vital to ensure the implementation of the continuum of cascade of TB care from screening to prompt diagnosis to timely initiation of appropriate treatment and prevention by conducting contact investigation (CI) and providing TB preventive treatment (TPT) to eligible contacts of patients with drug-susceptible TB. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID),