Here is an undated article from the Union about HIT. HIT is unrelated to HIM.
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3DF awards US$ 1 million to The Union’s HIT Programme in Myanmar
At its recent meeting on Round III grants, the Three Diseases Fund (3DF) awarded The Union’s HIV Treatment (HIT) Programme in Myanmar US $ 1,045,000 to put an additional 2,790 patients on antiretroviral therapy by the end of June 2011.The HIT Programme builds on The Union’s successful IHC Programme in Myanmar.
At its recent meeting on Round III grants, the Three Diseases Fund (3DF) awarded The Union’s HIV Treatment (HIT) Programme in Myanmar US $ 1,045,000 to put an additional 2,790 patients on antiretroviral therapy by the end of June 2011.
The HIT Programme builds on the successful Integrated HIV Care for Tuberculosis Patients Living with HIV/AIDS (IHC) Programme. It provides comprehensive and integrated HIV care, including antiretroviral therapy, to all HIV-infected patients with a special focus on those co-infected with TB, as well as their HIV-positive relatives.
The IHC Programme was launched in Myanmar in 2005. It began in five townships of Mandalay and has grown steadily so that it now covers a population of approximately 1.5 million people in the seven townships of Mandalay and in Pakokku municipality. Under the direction of The Union’s Dr Philippe Clevenbergh, the IHC programme has become a pioneer collaboration between the public health sector, an international non-governmental organisation and the private sector in Myanmar.
IHC has now expanded its scope to include all HIV-infected patients whatever their TB status, while at the same time keeping the National TB Programme as a priority port of entry. The HIV Treatment Programme -- “HIT” -- also covers two additional municipalities, Lashio and Taunggyi in Shan states, for a total population of 2.1 million people.
The Three Diseases Fund (3DF) aims to reduce the burden of communicable disease mortality and morbidity for Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria and HIV and AIDS in Burma/Myanmar. It is supported by Australia, the European Commission (EC), the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden the United Kingdom (UK) and Denmark. Over the past three years, the 3DF has disbursed some US$88.6 million in three rounds of grants.
http://www.theunion.org/news/3df-awards-us$-1-million-to-the-unions-hit-programme-in-myanmar.html
