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This guide assists in making TB control policy decisions and plans for successfully introducing fixed-dose combination drugs (FDCs). This guide is intended for national TB program managers, DOTS strategy implementers, drug procurement officers/personnel, DOT providers, and drug regulatory authorities.
This book provides a basis for the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis. It is presented in a question-and-answer format, with subject matter grouped under the three headings: Case Detection, Treatment, and Monitoring.
This compendium report provides a detailed review of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for national TB programs and indicators for measuring DOTS implementation and expansion. The review includes information on M&E for TB control programs, sources of data, and effective use of M&E data for program improvement and advocacy.
This book was developed to assist in the management of TB and HIV/AIDS programs that are implementing or planning to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. It is intended to facilitate the collection of standardized data and help in the interpretation and dissemination of these data for program improvement. It aims to ensure consistency across all agencies and stakeholders involved in HIV/AIDS, TB, and collaborative TB/HIV activities.
This booklet explains the relationship between MDR-TB, DOTS, and DOTS-Plus and how projects can become a DOTS-Plus pilot project that can benefit from concessionary prices negotiated for second-line anti-TB drugs by the Working Group.
This report sets out the rationale for the ProTest Initiative (Promotion of Voluntary Testing), based on an analysis of the impact of HIV on TB control. It describes the elements of the ProTest approach, reviews progress so far, and sets out the future direction. The purpose of the report is to generate discussion and ideas that will help the Initiative establish a comprehensive range of interventions needed to control TB in settings with high prevalence of HIV infection.
This training course uses a variety of methods of instruction to help health workers develop specific skills necessary to diagnose persons with TB and manage treatment for their patients.
This report presents HIV self-testing (HIVST) as an innovative strategy with great potential to contribute to achieving the United Nations (UN) 90–90–90 targets by 2020
WHO guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding in 2010 for the first time recommended the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding. This resulted in a major change from an individualised counselling approach toward a public health approach regarding how maternal and child health services should routinely promote and support infant feeding practices among mothers living with HIV
