Resultados: 2

    WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities: guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders

    In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an interim policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities in response to demand from countries for immediate guidance on actions to decrease the dual burden of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The term interim was used because the...

    Recommendations for investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries

    Tuberculosis (TB) contacts are people who have close contact with patients with infectious TB. As they are at high risk for infection (and in line with the Stop TB strategy), TB contacts should be investigated systematically and actively for TB infection and disease. Such interventions are called ‘tube...