The IDP GHS Programs' goal is to strengthen the health service delivery infrastructure (material and human) in locations where the program is operating. Material strengthening concerns resource and equipment donations, as well as physical infrastructure improvements such as laboratory construction or repair, emphasizing quality control. Human strengthening is made possible through the training and retraining of health personnel.

IDP has developed two very unique pieces of equipment to supplement the lack of infrastructure in rural settings, allowing IDP to bring training and high end laboratory and x-ray equipment to the remotest location. The two units are called the Netrans and Medtrans.

The Netrans, which is a fully self-contained mobile telecommunications unit, enable connectivity for TB-=related activities and for interactive health education media dissemination, where trained health education facilitators using interactive media modules promote community awareness and conduct standardized health personnel training. The Netrans is an ideal platform to broadcast health education media to reach the otherwise unreachable remote rural villager, as well as an ideal platform to train and retrain health personnel in the otherwise unreachable rural settings.

The Medtrans units, which are currently in development, will work in unison with the Netrans units. The Medtrans are clinical service sites with interactive tele-medicine portals, featuring trained health personnel using high-demand medical equipment to bring x-ray and laboratory capabilities to the remotest locations. In addition to tele-medicine, trained health personnel will conduct TB-related testing, diagnoses, treatment and surveillance from these units, designed to supplement (not supplant) current health related efforts, with the outcome of strengthening the indigenous capacity within the existing health infrastructure.

Tele-medicine capabilities, surveillance software, health education and web-based databases, which are all inherent within the GHS Program, are capable of expanded use beyond TB-related activities, stepping up efforts to combat the foremost deadly diseases. Research and activities with regard to TB/HIV co-infection, HIV/AIDS and Malaria can be supported concurrently in the most remote locations via the Medtrans and Netrans Units.

The ability to find and identify MDR-TB (multi-drug resistant TB), through the Medtrans laboratory, will drastically improve the ability to identify this strain. Research in the field of epidemiology will also be made available by nature of the Medtrans and Netrans abilities, with the added benefit of being in the midst of very high TB/HIV co-infected locations. IDP entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in November 2002. KEMRI will utilize the Medtrans for its research, as their participation in the overall GHS Program will help lay the foundation for the two organization to implement the GHS Program throughout the whole of East Africa.