KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation (Ukraine)

From 2014 to 2019 KNCV ran USAID-funded Challenge TB (CTB) project. The goal of the first year in Ukraine was to improve Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis(MDR-TB) services and outcomes for MDR-TB patients in partner Mykolaivska and Poltavska oblasts through the integration of a patient-centered approach based on the ambulatory healthcare system into oblasts’ routine MDR-TB case management system, resulted in reducing mortality, lowering default rates, improving MDR-TB case detection and diagnosis, and enhancing treatment success.

The CTB-supported countries jointly achieved the following results during the five-year project period:
– 7.3% reduction of the TB incidence rate above the global average of 6.3%
– 85% treatment success rate with more than ten countries above 90%
– 10.2 million people successfully treated
– 275,000 people initiated on treatment for MDR-TB
– Provision of ART for 86% of people infected with both TB and HIV

In 2019, we continued providing technical assistance to the implementation of digital adherence technology (DAT) in Ukraine as well as Tanz