The Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization to Support Tuberculosis Prevention and Care was developed in response to this increased demand for broad-scope M&E of ACSM activities. While rigorous evaluation provides the best evidence to support scale-up of specific ACSM ...

First generation surveillance relied solely on data on AIDS cases and some sentinel studies on HIV prevalence. In 2000, a new strategy named second generation surveillance (SGS) was promoted to tailor surveillance systems to the epidemic state of a country (1). More specifically, the strategy ...

People living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are 29 times (26-31) more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) disease as people without HIV and living in the same country. TB is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV, accounting for one in ...