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Tuberculosis (TB)

See our projects that aim to #EndTB across the Philippines.

Empowering the Next Generation of Advocacy and Grassroots Engagement for Tuberculosis (E.N.G.A.G.E. TB)

GRANT NAME: Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS)
FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership

Objectives: At the end of the project implementation, ENGAGE TB aims to:

  • Empower TB patients to report barriers to care
  • Promote people-centered and responsive TB care, especially those from the vulnerable groups
  • Promote evidence-informed community-initiated actions, advocacy, or reforms for TB care

Achievements:

  • Development of the Care TB app (adapted One Impact app)
  • Trained 107 persons with TB and 23 health workers
  • Established community-led monitoring (CLM) Core Group

Timeline: October 2020 – December 2021

Intensified and Active Case Finding (IACF)

GRANT NAME: Improving TB and DR-TB Quality of Care Through Workplace Policies and Practices

FUNDER: USAID, FHI 360-TBIHSS

Objectives:

  • Intensified and Active Case Finding in NCR, Region 3, Region 4A and Cebu City

Achievements:

  • Conducted hospital-based intensified case finding activity in public hospitals in NCR, Region 3, Region 4a, and Cebu City
  • Conducted Active Case Finding in high-risk specialty clinics, formal and informal workplace through established partners
  • Conducted ACF aligned with the City-wide TB Elimination Campaign (CiTEC) – TB model in Cebu City to develop an implementation model for UHC reforms

Timeline: March 2021 to February 2022

TB in the Workplace (TBWP)

GRANT NAME: USAID Philippines: TB Innovations and Health Systems Strengthening

FUNDER: USAID subrecipient to FHI 360

Objectives:

  • At the end of the implementation, members of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) will mainstream ongoing workplace annual and pre-employment screening activities to contribute directly to the National TB Program.

Achievements:

  • Initiated the development of a Reporting Policy Framework
  • Developed a one-stop web platform for adopting the TB in the Workplace model with Dashboard M and E analytics to track milestone progress of member companies
  • Developed E-learning modules developed for capacity-building and sensitization of OSHCs and stakeholders
  • Workplace engagement and provision of technical assistance in establishment and implementing a TB in the workplace program guided by Five-level Milestone approach toward establishing a TB in the workplace
  • Active Case Finding Activities among ECOP member companies, and informal working groups

Timeline: March 2021 – February 2022

Leading Evidence-based, CRG-informed Decision Support to Address Barriers to Care Among Indigents in Metro Manila, Philippines

GRANT NAME: Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round 10

FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership

Objectives:

  • This project envisions moving a step forward towards a holistic approach for TB care – one that is community-inclusive, rights-based, and gender-responsive. This will be achieved through the integration of clinical, CRG, and stigma facets of TB to a decision support tool for improved decision making.

Specifically, it aims to:

  • Assess the determinants that are attributed to indigent Filipinos’ access to TB care, mainly focusing on CRG and stigma aspects, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Assess what are the current strategies and mechanisms being provided to address the TB burden among the indigent Filipinos in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Establish a monitoring and evaluation framework to ensure optimal analysis of TB data and appropriate use of information to inform programmatic decision making

Timeline: January 2022 – December 2022

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Public-Private mix

Check our projects on public-private mix (PPM) models.

Mandatory Notification PLUS: Enhancing TB diagnostics and treatment in the private-sector in the Philippines

GRANT NAME: TB REACH Wave 8
FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership

Objectives

  • M+ aims to improve the quality of diagnosis and mandatory reporting of TB among stand-along physicians (SAPs) in the 2nd District of NCR through a bold business-to-business model of a network of laboratories, connected to back-end GeneXpert testing hubs. The project also aims to increase access to first-line TB medications through the intermediary facility of InnovationsCH, Kalinga Health.

Key Activities:

  • Establishment of the network of SAPs and laboratories, linked to back-end central Xpert testing hubs
  • Provider engagement to improve quality of diagnostics and overall TB care
  • ITIS case registration and assistance in the deployment of ITIS Lite for private provider mandatory notification of TB cases
  • Pooling of PhilHealth claims for provider incentivization and sustainability of the project in addition to other income generation streams
  • Evidence generation through implementation science research for advocacy

Timeline: September 2020 – March 2022

Kalinga Health - Wave 6 Scale Up

GRANT NAME: TB REACH Wave 6 Scale-Up

FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership

Objectives:

  • To assess the effectiveness of the Kalinga Health model in increasing case detection rate, case notification rate, percentage of B+ cases, Integrated Tuberculosis Information System (ITIS) registration and notification, and TSR [Interrupted time series, and difference in difference study comparing the intervention and the control sites]
  • To assess the acceptability and feasibility of the model among the partner doctor providers and patients [Mixed Methods: Survey and FGDs

Achievements:

  • Created a network of private medical providers seeing TB patients
  • Utilized a professional “sales force” to develop a referral network of private providers linked to the TB center
  • Screening at Out-Patient Departments (OPD) of private clinics among persons waiting to be seen by doctors and diagnosis in the same clinic’s laboratory.
  • Provided Public-Private Mix (PPM) options for physicians for their TB presumptive patients.
  • Strengthened Kalinga Health as an intermediary facility providing consultation, treatment, diagnostics, case holding and follow-up, linking private providers to the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP).

Timeline: March 2021 – July 2021

GRANT NAME: TB REACH Wave 8 FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership Objectives
  • M+ aims to improve the quality of diagnosis and mandatory reporting of TB among stand-along physicians (SAPs) in the 2nd District of NCR through a bold business-to-business model of a network of laboratories, connected to back-end GeneXpert testing hubs. The project also aims to increase access to first-line TB medications through the intermediary facility of InnovationsCH, Kalinga Health.
Key Activities:
  • Establishment of the network of SAPs and laboratories, linked to back-end central Xpert testing hubs
  • Provider engagement to improve quality of diagnostics and overall TB care
  • ITIS case registration and assistance in the deployment of ITIS Lite for private provider mandatory notification of TB cases
  • Pooling of PhilHealth claims for provider incentivization and sustainability of the project in addition to other income generation streams
  • Evidence generation through implementation science research for advocacy
Timeline: September 2020 – March 2022
GRANT NAME: TB REACH Wave 6 Scale-Up FUNDER: Stop TB Partnership Objectives:
  • To assess the effectiveness of the Kalinga Health model in increasing case detection rate, case notification rate, percentage of B+ cases, Integrated Tuberculosis Information System (ITIS) registration and notification, and TSR [Interrupted time series, and difference in difference study comparing the intervention and the control sites]
  • To assess the acceptability and feasibility of the model among the partner doctor providers and patients [Mixed Methods: Survey and FGDs
Achievements:
  • Created of a network of private medical providers seeing TB patients
  • Utilized a professional “sales force” to develop a referral network of private providers linked to the TB center
  • Screening at Out-Patient Departments (OPD) of private clinics among persons waiting to be seen by doctors and diagnosis in the same clinic’s laboratory.
  • Provided Public-Private Mix (PPM) options for physicians for their TB presumptive patients.
  • Strengthened Kalinga Health as an intermediary facility providing consultation, treatment, diagnostics, case holding and follow-up, linking private providers to the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP).
Timeline: March 2021 – July 2021
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Communicable &
Non-communicable Diseases

Check our projects that cater to a wide array of health conditions to ensure patients receive a more holistic care.

Marikina HEARTS: A community-based intervention for hypertension control in the private-sector (mHearts)

GRANT NAME: LINKS Community Grant
FUNDER: Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL)

Objectives:

  • Train 100 Providers in using the WHO HEARTS Protocol and mHEARTS Application
  • Enrollment of 7,523 Hypertensive patients in the mHEARTS Application
  • Achieve 10.3% BP control among enrolled patients

Achievements:

  • Enrolled a total of 7,645 patients to the Marikina HEARTS Program
  • 5,289 patients are eligible for follow-up
  • A total of 2,980 enrolled patients eligible for follow up (56.34%) have Follow-up BP monitoring while only 633 patients (10.66%) have Controlled BP on Follow-up Reading
  • 114 providers trained in the WHO HEARTS protocol

Timeline: June 2019 – June 2021

The L.E.A.D. to find COVID19 Project

Leading and Empowering Antigen-based Diagnostics to find COVID19: A novel hub-and-spoke aggregator model of expanding Ag-RDT delivery in the Philippines

GRANT NAME: INNOVATIONS IN COVID-19 ANTIGEN RDT ROLLOUT IN UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

FUNDER: FIND – IRD

About the Project:

Consistent with its name, the LEAD to find COVID19 project will augment the current SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity through an innovative rollout of rapid antigen tests. The key feature is a hub-and-spoke aggregator model where existing NGO-managed clinic-laboratory hubs will serve as the technical and clinical resource to capacitate at least 300 providers to reach the underserved populations in Metro Manila.

The hubs shall harness economies of scale by tapping spoke aggregators – 1) private healthcare facilities – diagnostics, 2) private healthcare facilities – non-diagnostics, 3) workplaces clinics, 4) and other non-traditional C19 testing public and private healthcare settings – as the main recipients of training. This hybrid training-of-trainers and training-of-providers strategy is seen to answer the increasing rates of C19, the low diagnostic testing rates on key underserved populations, low investments, and the acceptability of antigen testing in the Philippines.

Timeline: September 2021 – December 2021

TRAIN HTS: Training of Responsive Actors in Implementing Necessary HIV Testing Services

FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

This project aims to develop a training package and roll out plan for HTS providers in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Department of Health, and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Specifically, this project aims to:

  • Identify training needs of HTS providers.
  • Identify learning content and appropriate learning materials/platforms for HTS providers
  • Develop and pilot test a training package for HTS providers
  • Develop a roll out plan for the training of HTS providers

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

REACH: Revitalizing Evidence-based Actions to improve Care and HIV testing services

FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

The objective of this project is to develop a demand generation plan to increase the uptake of and delivery of HIV Testing Services among target clients and health care providers, respectively.

Specifically, this project aims to:

  • Identify demand generation strategies for HIV testing services in consultation with key stakeholders
  • Develop demand generation materials for HIV testing services
  • Assist in the rollout of a demand generation plan based on the results of stakeholder consultations

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

The objective of this project is to integrate HIV-related services in primary care in the context of Universal Health Care and Mandanas Ruling, including local advocacy and budget planning.

Specifically, this project aims to:

  • Identify adaptive measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV-related services
  • Develop a policy brief and organize a multi-stakeholder forum discussing HIV-related services in the context of Universal Health Care and Mandanas Ruling and corresponding adaptive measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

Policy Scanning and Situational Analysis of TB/HIV Care Integration in National Capital Region, Philippines in the Context of UHC Act and COVID-19 Pandemic

FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

  • Assess the status of TB and HIV in the National Capital Region, Philippines in terms of epidemiologic trends, characteristics, and distribution
  • Rapidly evaluate the previous and existing policies and programs on TB/HIV integration care in National Capital Region, Philippines
    • Determine the best practices, strategies, issues and gaps in the implementation of policies/programs on TB-HIV care integration in National Capital Region
    • Assess the implementation, service, and client outcomes of these policies and programs
  • In collaboration with key stakeholders, formulate a new TB-HIV care integration framework for National Capital Region and in the context of Universal Health Care Act and COVID-19 pandemic

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

The Time Has Come to Lead an Innovative and Practical SYNCed (LIP-SYNC) Digital Platform for Better Lives – A Web-based “Time Has Come Training” Modules

FOCUS: Training

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

InnovationsCH aims to develop web-based “Time Has Come Training” modules to reduce stigma in the health care settings

Specifically, the organization aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • To develop an inception report including proposed technical design and timeline
  • To contextualize, validate, and pilot test the “Time Has Come Training” modules by different stakeholders
  • To finalize web-based Time Has Come Training modules

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

The Power of Knowing: A Technical Assistance on Providing Job Aids to Advocate and Facilitate Routine Viral Load Testing and Management of Virologic Failure to Achieve U=U

FOCUS: Quality of Care

FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines

Objectives:

This project aims to provide technical assistance to the WHO and Department of Health (Philippines) in the assessment of barriers and development of job aids for routine viral load testing, management of virologic failure, including access to drug resistance, genotyping tests and access to second and third line medications.

Innovations for Community Health (InnovationsCH) in partnership with Prevo Design and Innovation (Prevo), a learning and development firm, specifically aims to:

  • Assess the barriers to access of routine viral load testing, management of virologic failure, including access to drug resistance, genotyping tests and access to second and third line medications through review of documents;
  • Conduct a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with providers to validate findings from the desk review and to supplement the assessment;
  • Develop job aids and instructional design using a Training of Trainers (ToT) approach

Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022

Institutionalization of Remote Intervention Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy Services in Community-based Programs

GRANT NAME: 2021 Equity Community Building Funds

FUNDER: The Equity Initiative (through Mr. Abelardo Apollo I. David, Jr.)

Objectives:

This project aims to help poor children with disabilities receive much-needed OT, PT and ST services despite the mobility, physical and social restrictions ensuing from COVID-19. This can be achieved by enabling community-based programs such as Therafree and Project TEACH to adapt to the times by equipping them with appropriate and evidence-based instructional materials and processes needed for the remote delivery of therapy services in community settings.

Timeline: January 2022 – February 2023

GRANT NAME: LINKS Community Grant FUNDER: Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) Objectives:
  • Train 100 Providers in using the WHO HEARTS Protocol and mHEARTS Application
  • Enrollment of 7,523 Hypertensive patients in the mHEARTS Application
  • Achieve 10.3% BP control among enrolled patients
Achievements:
  • Enrolled a total of 7,645 patients to the Marikina HEARTS Program.
  • 5,289 patients are eligible for follow-up
  • A total of 2,980 enrolled patients eligible for follow up (56.34%) have Follow-up BP monitoring while only 633 patients (10.66%) have Controlled BP on Follow-up Reading.
  • 114 providers trained in the WHO HEARTS protocol.
Timeline: June 2019 – June 2021
Leading and Empowering Antigen-based Diagnostics to find COVID19: A novel hub-and-spoke aggregator model of expanding Ag-RDT delivery in the Philippines GRANT NAME: INNOVATIONS IN COVID-19 ANTIGEN RDT ROLLOUT IN UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS FUNDER: FIND – IRD About the Project: Consistent with its name, the LEAD to find COVID19 project will augment the current SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity through an innovative rollout of rapid antigen tests. The key feature is a hub-and-spoke aggregator model where existing NGO-managed clinic-laboratory hubs will serve as the technical and clinical resource to capacitate at least 300 providers to reach the underserved populations in Metro Manila. The hubs shall harness economies of scale by tapping spoke aggregators – 1) private healthcare facilities – diagnostics, 2) private healthcare facilities – non-diagnostics, 3) workplaces clinics, 4) and other non-traditional C19 testing public and private healthcare settings – as the main recipients of training. This hybrid training-of-trainers and training-of-providers strategy is seen to answer the increasing rates of C19, the low diagnostic testing rates on key underserved populations, low investments, and the acceptability of antigen testing in the Philippines. Timeline: September 2021 – December 2021
FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives: This project aims to develop a training package and roll out plan for HTS providers in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Department of Health, and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Specifically, this project aims to:
  • Identify training needs of HTS providers.
  • Identify learning content and appropriate learning materials/platforms for HTS providers
  • Develop and pilot test a training package for HTS providers
  • Develop a roll out plan for the training of HTS providers
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives: The objective of this project is to develop a demand generation plan to increase the uptake of and delivery of HIV Testing Services among target clients and health care providers, respectively. Specifically, this project aims to:
  • Identify demand generation strategies for HIV testing services in consultation with key stakeholders.
  • Develop demand generation materials for HIV testing services.
  • Assist in the rollout of a demand generation plan based on the results of stakeholder consultations
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives: The objective of this project is to to integrate HIV-related services in primary care in the context of Universal Health Care and Mandanas Ruling, including local advocacy and budget planning. Specifically, this project aims to:
  • Identify adaptive measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV-related services
  • Develop a policy brief and organize a multi-stakeholder forum discussing HIV-related services in the context of Universal Health Care and Mandanas Ruling and corresponding adaptive measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
FOCUS: Universal Health Care and Health Service Delivery Strengthening FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives:
  • Assess the status of TB and HIV in the National Capital Region, Philippines in terms of epidemiologic trends, characteristics, and distribution
  • Rapidly evaluate the previous and existing policies and programs on TB/HIV integration care in National Capital Region, Philippines
    • Determine the best practices, strategies, issues and gaps in the implementation of policies/programs on TB-HIV care integration in National Capital Region
    • Assess the implementation, service, and client outcomes of these policies and programs
  • In collaboration with key stakeholders, formulate a new TB-HIV care integration framework for National Capital Region and in the context of Universal Health Care Act and COVID-19 pandemic
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
FOCUS: Training FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives: InnovationsCH aims to develop web-based “Time Has Come Training” modules to reduce stigma in the health care settings Specifically, the organization aims to achieve the following objectives:
  • To develop an inception report including proposed technical design and timeline.
  • To contextualize, validate, and pilot test the Time Has Come Training modules by different stakeholders.
  • To finalize web-based Time Has Come Training modules.
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
FOCUS: Quality of Care FUNDER: World Health Organization – Philippines Objectives: This project aims to provide technical assistance to the WHO and Department of Health (Philippines) in the assessment of barriers and development of job aids for routine viral load testing, management of virologic failure, including access to drug resistance, genotyping tests and access to second and third line medications. Innovations for Community Health (InnovationsCH) in partnership withPrevo Design and Innovation (Prevo), a learning and development firm, specifically aims to:
  • Assess the barriers to access of routine viral load testing, management of virologic failure, including access to drug resistance, genotyping tests and access to second and third line medications through review of documents;
  • Conduct a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with providers to validate findings from the desk review and to supplement the assessment;
  • Develop job aids and instructional design using a Training of Trainers (ToT) approach.
Timeline: January 2022 – June 2022
GRANT NAME: 2021 Equity Community Building Funds FUNDER: The Equity Initiative (through Mr. Abelardo Apollo I. David, Jr.) Objectives: This project aims to help poor children with disabilities receive much-needed OT, PT and ST services despite the mobility, physical and social restrictions ensuing from COVID-19. This can be achieved by enabling community-based programs such as Therafree and Project TEACH to adapt to the times by equipping them with appropriate and evidence-based instructional materials and processes needed for the remote delivery of therapy services in community settings. Timeline: January 2022 – February 2023
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Implementation Science & Research

Check our various research projects utilizing the concepts of implementation science and human-centered design to improve public health outcomes.

Acceptability of the Kalinga Health Hub as a TB Intermediary Facility among Private Care Providers in Marikina City

Research Team:

  • Castillo-Carandang, Nina
  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Bardelosa, Danika Joy
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Salvador, Philline Aurea
  • Melendres, Julia Czen
  • Choi, Paulene Faye
  • Chin, Isabel
  • Rancap, Denver Angelo

The diagnostic accuracy of a deep learning, computer-aided technology for screening for pulmonary tuberculosis in chest radiographs of Filipinos in Marikina and Mandaluyong, Philippines

Research Team:

  • Maglente, Renee Rose
  • Flores, Gabrielle
  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Leong, Robert Neil

Finding the missing Tuberculosis cases: Effectiveness of an intermediary facility in TB service delivery hub-and-spoke delivery innovation in the Philippines

Research Team:

  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Leong, Robert Neil
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Ignacio, Marvin Louie
  • Maglente, Renee Rose
  • Nuguid, Marlex Jorome
  • Basas, Rachel Mary Anne

Development and Deployment of the mHEARTS application: The first mobile hypertension registry in the Philippines

Research Team:

  • Rancap, Denver Angelo
  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Nuguid, Marlex Jorome

Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Feasibility of a Digital Community-Led Monitoring Platform for TB Care in Metro Manila, Philippines

Research Team:

  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Choi, Paulene Faye
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Alacapa, Jason

Development of a digital community-led monitoring platform for TB care in Metro Manila, Philippines using a human-centered design approach

Research Team:

  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Choi, Paulene Faye
  • Ignacio, Marvin Louie

Valuation of a novel private provider interface model of Tuberculosis care in Metro Manila, the Philippines

Research Team:

  • Alacapa, Jason
  • Leong, Robert Neil
  • Uy, Kathleen Nicole
  • Tamayo, Reiner Lorenzo
  • Ignacio, Marvin Louie
  • Choi, Paulene Faye
  • Rancap, Denver Angelo
  • Chin, Isabel

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