Projects: Honduras

With funding and technical assistance from the Gorgas TB Initiative, two projects are being implemented by in Honduras in partnership with the National TB Program (NTP) and other organizations. The first, a “Collaborative Project for the Strengthening of TB Control Strategies in Honduras”, which began in 2001, has provided training to faculty of the National Autonomous University, as well as private and hospital-based practitioners, in order to strengthen links between academia, the NTP, and the private sector, and improve knowledge of TB control among medical and nursing school graduates. The core component of this project, however, has trained staff in every prison in the country about TB and NTP guidelines, and is assisting prisons to implement Directly Observed Therapy, Short Course (DOTS) for improved TB control. An international workshop was held in August, 2003 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to share the experience of the Honduran prison TB control program with other countries in Latin America and the Carribean.

In 2003, UAB and JHU began patient recruitment for a study of the “Microscopic Observation for Detection and Susceptibility (MODS) Test for Diagnosis of Pulmonary TB and TB Drug Resistance”. Project sites in Honduras and Brazil are field-testing a rapid, inexpensive, technically simple test developed by GTI in Peru, to determine its effectiveness under “real world” conditions.

MODS Test for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Drug Resistance

Collaborative Project for the Strengthening of TB Control Strategies in Honduras

International Workshop on TB Control in Prisons [Spanish Version]

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