Table 1 Description of International Organization for Migration (IOM) support program to the Jordan and Lebanon National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs) for TB control among Syrian refugees—Jordan and Lebanon, 2013–2015

Objectives:

1) Increase TB awareness and knowledge of TB treatment services among Syrian refugees and health care workers

2) Increase TB screening among Syrian refugees

3) Increase TB diagnosis among Syrian refugees

4) Maximize treatment success among Syrian refugees

5) Support the development and implementation of national guidelines for effective management of latent TB infection (LTBI)

Resources/Activities in Jordan, 2013–2015:

• Engage community health workers to provide awareness sessions about TB disease and TB treatment services in refugee camps and to community organizations where Syrian refugees live

• Provide symptom screening at international border entry point (until 2014) for arriving Syrian refugees

• Employ physicians to provide assessment of presumed Syrian refugee TB cases where Syrian refuges live using mobile medical unit

• Provide funds for culture and drug sensitivity testing, if indicated, for Syrian refugees

• Provide funds for TB medications for Syrian refugees

• Engage community health workers to provide directly observed therapy (DOT) to Syrian refugee TB cases in camps and contract community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide it where Syrian refugees live in the community

• Provide funds for transportation for contacts to come to NTP clinic for contact investigations among Syrian refugees

Resources/Activities in Lebanon, 2015

• Engage community health workers to provide mass TB symptom screenings in informal settlements and collective shelters where Syrian refugees live

• Provide funds for transportation to refer presumed Syrian refugee TB cases to NTP clinics for physician assessment

• Provide funds for culture and drug sensitivity testing, if indicated, for Syrian refugees

• Provide funds for TB medications for Syrian refugees

• Support salary for DOT coordinators (nurses) to provide DOT to Syrian refugee TB cases

• Provide funds for transportation for contacts to come to NTP clinic for contact investigation among Syrian refugees