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The NJDOH Tuberculosis Control Program supports TB ambulatory care activities (clinical evaluation, treatment, prevention, and epidemiology) at the county, municipal, and institutional level through the provision of health service grant funds, staff, medication, consultation, and education.
Objectives
Baseline*
Progress Toward Target
Target*
Assessment is final
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Progress Toward Target
*Figures shown are a mix of counts, percentages, rates, and ratios. Click the Objective statement for more information about the corresponding measure.
At/Making progress toward Target
Not progressing toward Target
2018-2023
Projects
- Diagnosis/treatment of persons with TB Disease
- Conduct contact investigations for infectious TB cases
- Examination of immigrants and refugees with TB or LTBI
- Targeted testing and treatment of LTBI in high-risk populations
- Program planning, evaluation, and improvement
- Epidemiologic surveillance and response
- Human resource development and partnerships
- Statewide TB webinars
- Web-based TB Grand Rounds
- Biannual TB Nurse Consultant Conferences
- On-Site Mentoring
- TB Medical Advisory Board
- TB Nursing Advisory Board
- Provide TB testing supplies, medication, personnel, technical assistance, education, and training to local health departments.
- Collaborations with other programs and organizations, including:
- State and local HIV prevention programs
- NJDOH Division of HIV, STD, and TB Services
- CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
- The Global TB Institute/CDC TB Center of Excellence located in Newark, New Jersey
- New Jersey Department of Corrections
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials stationed in New Jersey
- Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
- Promote and strengthen relationships between county TB control units, local substance abuse treatment programs, and agencies that provide services to homeless or marginally housed individuals.
Grants awarded by NJDOH
- Health Service Grant subgrants provided to local health departments to provide regional TB clinical and outreach services
- 8 grants given totaling $2.45 million in state funds
- 8 grants given totaling $1.4 million in federal funds
Grants received by NJDOH
- CDC’s Tuberculosis Elimination and Laboratory Cooperative Agreement to maintain essential TB prevention and control infrastructure in New Jersey and to provide expert technical support to county TB Programs, medical providers, and policy makers. Funds are also used to provide language interpreter services for 21 county health departments in New Jersey.
Challenges
- Country of birth continues to be a major risk factor for TB diagnosed in the U.S. because the risk of TB exposure varies by country.
Disparities/inequities
- Over the five-year period 2018-2022, 86 percent of TB cases in New Jersey occurred among non-U.S. born persons.
- The geographic distribution of the foreign-born population of New Jersey is more heavily concentrated in the northeast region of the state.
- Funding to sub-grantee programs in northeast New Jersey partially supports the cost of TB nurses and outreach workers that speak multiple languages and dialects.
- Since June 2004, the Northeast TB Center of Excellence (Global TB Institute) has published 17 cultural competency newsletters for statewide distribution.
Final Assessment
Two of the four Tuberculosis targets were achieved by 2020.
- Targets were achieved for:
- Tuberculosis incidence
- Treatment completion among contacts with latent TB
- Targets were not achieved for:
- 12-month treatment completion
- TB cases with HIV status known
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