Audit of USAID/Southern Africa's Tuberculosis Activities

USAID/Southern Africa implement a plan with benchmarks and milestones for sustainably raising the tuberculosis treatment success rate to 85 percent in U.S. Government-supported health-care facilities by September 28, 2014.

USAID/Southern Africa revise its annual performance plan and report for fiscal year 2011 to disclose trends in the treatment success rate and the number of tuberculosis cases at sentinel surveillance sites and implement procedures to require full disclosure in future reports.

USAID/Southern Africa implement a costeffective
method for reasonably estimating the percentage of all registered tuberculosis patients tested for HIV in all facilities directly or indirectly supported by USAID.

USAID/Southern Africa conduct and document training for its implementing partners on the correct calculation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief tuberculosis and HIV indicators and require that the implementing partners provide sufficient guidance on data collection for those indicators to the health-care facilities that they support.