DAPCU Bangalor Urban Response to DCC for HIV-TB

1. District co-ordination committee is in place in the district (Bangalore Urban)
2. Meet regularly once in 3 months under the chairmanship of D C
3. Discuses about the programme implementation, performance and challenges
4. Major challenge of Bangalore Urban is non-co-location of ICTC and DMC. To address this    issue, regular outreach activities are being planned and implemented.
5. To resolve this issue permanently, all the DMC lab-technicians are trained for HIV testing and 22 DMC’s are being planned to run as F – ICTC subject to the availability of the HIV testing kits.
6. All these issues are being regularly reviewed by the DC.
7. In addition to this, HIV-TB collaborative activities are being regularly reviewed every month by the DC in the district mission meeting and Z P, C E O at the district health society meeting.
8. Also HIV-TB cross referral performance is reviewed for the ICTC counselors and STS by the DAPCU and DTO