Kampala, 4th July 2019: The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, launched a 100-Day Accelerated Scale-up plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) targeting over 300 000 People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) in Uganda. The government will also provide TPT to all children aged 12 months or more living with HIV as well as HIV-negative infants and children aged 5 years or below who are household contacts of patients with pulmonary Tuberculosis. As part of the scale-up plan, Government will provide TPT at 1 947 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) sites across the country. 

Mbabane, Swaziland 25 May - The Kingdom of Swaziland completed a two weeks long first ever joint review of four programmes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis (TB), Viral Hepatitis prevention and control as well as Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT). This is in line with the country’s plan to strengthen integration of the four programmes. Currently the programmes have separate strategic plans. For example: the HIV Health Sector Response Plan runs from 2014 – 2018 and the TB National Strategic Plan runs from 2015 – 2019. However all the strategic plans are aligned to the National Health Sector Strategic Plan (NHSSP 2013 – 2018).