USAID Works with Vietnam’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program (NTP) to Complete its 2021-2025 National Strategic Plan: The USAID Sustainable HIV and Tuberculosis Response from Technical Assistance (SHIFT) project strengthens and delivers innovative enhancements in HIV and Tuberculosis services. USAID SHIFT’s primary aim with regards to TB is to help Vietnam increase diagnosis of TB  to achieve its target of ending TB by 2030. Last month, USAID SHIFT supported the NTP to develop a National TB Strategic Plan, which lays out the vision and strategic priorities of the NTP from 2021-2025 to find and treat all TB cases to decrease transmission; and find and treat those who are infected with TB to prevent progression to active disease.

So What? The National Strategic Plan is a key technical guiding document for the NTP’s programming in Vietnam for the next five years and shows the government’s commitment to ending TB by 2030.