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Out of the Dark: Meeting the Needs of Children With TB

The report outlines the current state of pediatric TB care, and looks at current practices, new developments and research needs in pediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Out of the dark intends to act as a guide to treatment programs for implementation of the best standard of care currently available to children with TB, and to raise awareness of the need to continue to push for improvements in the management of childhood TB.

Speed Up Scale Up: Strategies, Tools and Policies to Get the Best HIV Treatment to More People, Sooner

This report outlines some of the strategies, tools and policies that have supported the scaling up of treatment during the past decade as well as those that can address persistent or new challenges. The results are presented from a 23-country survey of how consistently these strategies are being implemented. The findings demonstrate encouraging progress by some health ministries in adopting many of the enabling policies needed to facilitate scale-up and improve care. Nevertheless, the adoption and implementation of these strategies, tools and policies are lagging in some countries.