In September 2019, Stop TB Partnership’s Executive Committee approved US$15.4 million in start-up and scalability funds to be awarded to 37 grass-roots innovators intending to transform TB case finding, diagnostics, and care.

The Wave 7 call for applications solicited 593 letters of intent out of which 149 applicants were invited to submit full proposals. After a rigorous review by an independent review committee, 37 proposals were selected representing submissions from 23 countries. In this wave, eight projects will be focused on private sector engagement, and four on testing the new XDR/MDR-TB regiment BPaL.

Along with TB innovation, Wave 7 will focus on empowering women and girls. As such, the 37 projects will transform the status quo on the ground - from engaging schoolgirls in empowerment and community mobilization activities to screen TB, to bringing innovative screening to female prisoners, to testing tele-health and cutting-edge lab software with women and for women - Wave 7 is about showing how the TB response can align with other powerful social movements. For more information on the Wave 7 Framework for Empowering Women in TB REACH grants, please click here.

Other innovations in this wave include artificial intelligence, digital adherence technologies, new diagnostics, and new treatment regiments.

TB REACH Wave 7 Selected Proposals

Country

Grantee Organization

Evaluation Category

Bangladesh

icddr,b

Case Detection

Belarus

State Institution "Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis"

Treatment Outcome

Burundi

ASSOCIATION DES VOLONTAIRES POUR LUTTER CONTRE LA TUBERCULOSE(AVLT)

Case Detection

Cambodia

Korean National Tuberculosis Association

Case Detection

Cambodia

Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE

Case Detection

Ethiopia

Koninklijke Nederlandse Centrale Vereniging tot Bestrijding der Tuberculose (KNCV)

Case Detection

India

Innovators In Health (India)

Case Detection

India

Johns Hopkins University

Case Detection

India

Resource group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH)

Case Detection

India

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

Case Detection

India

ZMQ Development

Case Detection

Indonesia

Yayasan KNCV Indonesia

Case Detection

Indonesia

The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health

Case Detection

Kenya

Kisumu County Department of Health/KEPI-CDH KISUMU

Case Detection

Kenya

OGRA Foundation

Case Detection

Mozambique

Development Media International Associates CIC

Case Detection

Myanmar

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

Case Detection

Myanmar

PATH/Myanmar Medical Association

Case Detection

Nepal

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Nepal

Case Detection

Nigeria

Plan International Nigeria

Case Detection

Pakistan

Bridge Consultants Foundation

Case Detection

Pakistan

IRD Global Limited

Case Detection

Pakistan

Community Health Solutions

Case Detection

Pakistan

Association for Social Development

Case Detection

Pakistan

National TB Control Program

Product Innovation

Peru

Partners In Health (PIH)-Sucursal Peru

Case Detection

Russian Federation

Open Health InstituteTreatment OutcomeSierra LeonePartners In Health (PIH)

Case Detection

Sierra Leone

Partners In Health (PIH)

Case Detection

South Africa

THINK Tuberculosis and HIV Investigative Network (RF) NPC

Treatment Outcome

Tajikistan

Koninklijke Nederlandse Centrale Vereniging tot Bestrijding der Tuberculose (KNCV)

Treatment Outcome

Thailand

Ashakalp Healthcare Association

Case Detection

Uganda

BRAC Uganda

Case Detection

Uganda

Amber Heart Foundation

Case Detection

Uganda

Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences Makerere University

Case Detection

Ukraine

Koninklijke Nederlandse Centrale Vereniging tot Bestrijding der Tuberculose (KNCV) / Organization for Appropriate Technologies in Health ICF

Treatment Outcome

Viet Nam

Freundeskreis für Internationale Tuberkulosehilfe e.V.

Case Detection

Zambia

Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Case Detection