Policy Makers

This report analyses the factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs. Detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs are also provided.

WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This report is updated annually.

This book presents the objectives of the binational agenda for the Healthy Border 2010 program which was designed to facilitate and support community-based solutions for health promotion, disease prevention, and access to health services in the border region.

This booklet explains the action and resources needed over the next five years for six working groups to expand, adapt, and improve DOTS, enabling the working groups to meet the 2005 global targets of setting the world on the road to the elimination of TB.

Faced with four overlapping epidemics -- drug use, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis -- Central Asia may face a serious crisis in 20 years' time unless concerted action is taken now. This study, geared to policymakers, provides an epidemiological update and looks at actions taken already by governments, NGOs, and donors in four Central Asian countries. It finds that injecting drug users, sex workers, prisoners and youth at risk are barely attended to, while truck drivers and migrants are overlooked all together.

This report highlights the work of community-based organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS in advocating for coordinated TB and HIV policies and services in their countries. The report presents case studies that highlight community advocates’ strategies, achievements, and lessons learned.

This document describes nineteen (19) new or improved diagnostic tools of the many that have been or are being developed. WHO has a process for evaluating and endorsing new tools for TB control programmes. Three (3) of the tools described in this document have already been endorsed by WHO and are being implemented by countries, while the others are still under development or in piloting phase and are expected to be ready for review for appropriateness for scaled-up use in the coming years.

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a practical source of information on laws related to TB control to help public health practitioners and their legal counsel to: (1) understand the legal environment for the control of communicable diseases, including TB; (2) identify and explain legal issues in TB control; and (3) consider the use of tools for improving TB control.

This document lists the essential research questions that will provide a common framework for various scientific disciplines to work concurrently and collaboratively towards better TB control and elimination.

This fact sheet discusses the deadly duo of TB-HIV, and how members of both TB and HIV communities can work together.