TB/HIV Working Group

Monitoring & Evaluation

Harmonization

The guide to monitoring and evaluation assists in the management of TB and HIV control programmes to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. It is intended to facilitate the collection of standardized data and help in the interpretation and dissemination of these data for programme improvement. It also aims to ensure consistency across all agencies and stakeholders involved in HIV, TB and collaborative TB/HIV activities, avoiding duplication of effort in data collection by providing a core set of internationally accepted and standardized indicators for monitoring and evaluating programme performance.

The revision of the TB/HIV indicators with institutional collaboration among WHO, UNAIDS, the Global Fund and PEPFAR has resulted in harmonized TB/HIV indicators. The harmonized indicators were communicated with TB and HIV implementers and national authorities using different channels of communication and included in the revised TB/HIV monitoring and evaluation guidelines. The main changes are that the number of TB/HIV indicators in this revision have been reduced from 20 to 12, and new indicators concerning the monitoring of TB in health-care workers and measuring case-finding, i.e. the detection of HIV-positive TB patients, as a percentage of country-estimated cases have been added. The document will be launched at the HIV Implementers conference in Windhoek, Namibia in June 2009.

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