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Objectives:
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1) Increase TB awareness and knowledge of TB treatment services among Syrian refugees and health care workers
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2) Increase TB screening among Syrian refugees
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3) Increase TB diagnosis among Syrian refugees
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4) Maximize treatment success among Syrian refugees
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5) Support the development and implementation of national guidelines for effective management of latent TB infection (LTBI)
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Resources/Activities in Jordan, 2013–2015:
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• Engage community health workers to provide awareness sessions about TB disease and TB treatment services in refugee camps and to community organizations where Syrian refugees live
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• Provide symptom screening at international border entry point (until 2014) for arriving Syrian refugees
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• Employ physicians to provide assessment of presumed Syrian refugee TB cases where Syrian refuges live using mobile medical unit
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• Provide funds for culture and drug sensitivity testing, if indicated, for Syrian refugees
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• Provide funds for TB medications for Syrian refugees
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• Engage community health workers to provide directly observed therapy (DOT) to Syrian refugee TB cases in camps and contract community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide it where Syrian refugees live in the community
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• Provide funds for transportation for contacts to come to NTP clinic for contact investigations among Syrian refugees
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Resources/Activities in Lebanon, 2015
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• Engage community health workers to provide mass TB symptom screenings in informal settlements and collective shelters where Syrian refugees live
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• Provide funds for transportation to refer presumed Syrian refugee TB cases to NTP clinics for physician assessment
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• Provide funds for culture and drug sensitivity testing, if indicated, for Syrian refugees
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• Provide funds for TB medications for Syrian refugees
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• Support salary for DOT coordinators (nurses) to provide DOT to Syrian refugee TB cases
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• Provide funds for transportation for contacts to come to NTP clinic for contact investigation among Syrian refugees
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• Provide funds for diagnostic workup for contacts among Syrian refugees
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