Joint statement by WHO/PEPFAR/UNAIDS/Global Fund
We hereby announce the launch of 2015 revision of A guide to monitoring and evaluation for collaborative TB/HIV activities . It is a product of close collaboration between the World Health Organization, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and it has been produced through extensive consultations between the partners and national programmes.
This is the third revision of the Guide which was originally published in 2004 as a field version. It builds upon the remarkable progress made in implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities globally and draws heavily from collective experience in monitoring and evaluation of these activities. However despite the progress, an estimated 1.1 million new TB cases still occurred in people living with HIV with about 360,000 deaths globally in 2013, amounting to 25% of all TB deaths and 25% of the estimated 1.5 million HIV/AIDS deaths. The 2015 revision of the guide to monitoring and evaluation aims to strengthen implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities by improving quality of care through strong monitoring systems in the countries and adoption of standardized tools and indicators.
We encourage rapid adoption of this guide by national programmes. This will be crucial for monitoring the implementation of the Fast-Track strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, the WHO End-TB strategy as well as PEPFAR 3.0. The New Funding Model of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria offers a unique opportunity to implement such systems and ensure good quality of monitoring and evaluation.
