The particular focus of the projects is on increasing access to the poor, vulnerable and others who have limited access to TB services. The projects will be of one year in duration, and are due to start in the third quarter of 2011. The Union's proposals were selected on a competitive basis from over 300 applications.
TB REACH is a project of the Stop TB Partnership funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). In total Wave-2 will provide US$ 31 million for 45 projects in 29 countries.