The World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy emphasizes the importance of early tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and universal access to drug-susceptibility testing (DST). Despite these efforts, significant diagnostic gaps persist globally. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people contracted TB, with 7.5 million newly diagnosed cases, but only 4.0 million […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the second edition of its consolidated guidelines on TPT. The 21 recommendations contained in the second edition of the guidelines cover critical steps in programmatic management of TPT. The main changes from the first edition of the guidelines include a new, strong recommendation […]
Overview The document consolidates two TPPs for TB diagnostics to be carried out at the peripheral level: a newly updated TPP for a rapid test for TB detection and a TPP released in 2021 on next-generation DST for M. tuberculosis. The updated and consolidated TPPs introduces, for the first time, definitions […]
