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The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 provides 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 is done in the context of global TB commitments, strategies and targets.
The 2022 edition of the report is as usual, based primarily on data gathered by WHO from national ministries of health in annual rounds of data collection. In 2022, 202 countries and territories with more than 99% of the world’s population and TB cases reported data.
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This document is one of a series spotlighting the experiences of these early implementers when using artificial intelligence (AI) / computer-aided detection (CAD), to highlight the added value of CAD for TB programmes and inspire prospective implementers to innovate. Funding of this project was provided by the Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative, launched in 2010 by Global Affairs Canada. In 2012, TB REACH first worked with implementing partners to pilot CAD software.
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The operational handbook provides laboratory personnel, clinicians as well as ministries of health and technical partners detailed guidance on how to implement the WHO evidence-based recommendations on TB infection tests. The document describes the WHO recommended tests, test procedures, a model algorithm, and the steps required to scale-up TB infection testing within a health programme.
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The Framework for collaborative action on TB and comorbidities aims to support countries in the evidence-informed introduction and scale-up of holistic people-centred services for TB, comorbidities and health-related risk factors, with the goal of comprehensively addressing TB and other co-existing health conditions. It should be used in conjunction with relevant WHO guidelines. ties. The Framework is intended for use by people working in ministries of health, other relevant line-ministries, policymakers, international technical and funding organizations, researchers, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, as well as primary care workers, specialist health practitioners, and community health workers who support the response to TB and comorbidities in both the public and private sectors.
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The Global Plan to End TB, 2023–2030 (Global Plan) is a plan for ending tuberculosis (TB) as a public health challenge by 2030—the year by which governments around the world have committed to achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. This document provides the most detailed costing estimates of any Global Plan to date and builds on the previous edition, Paradigm Shift, which laid out priority actions for 2018–2022 informed by global commitments endorsed by Member States at the 2018 UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB. This Global Plan anticipates the priority actions that will be necessary in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and informs follow-up commitments to be made at a second UNHLM on TB in 2023.
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This guidance is intended for use in developing standalone TB strategic plans, or TB interventions as part of multidisease or health sector plans. It describes key considerations and steps for strategic planning for TB in line with the World Health Organization’s End TB strategy, and the proposed structure of the NSP. The target audience of this publication are all stakeholders involved in national strategic planning for TB (e.g., ministry of health, other government ministries, private sector, civil society, affected communities, academic and research institutions, and technical and funding partners).
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The purpose of this document is to describe and explain how to apply the principles of good clinical practice (GCP) and good data management practice (GDMP) in the context of national tuberculosis (TB) surveys, namely national population-based surveys of TB prevalence, anti-TB drug resistance surveys, and surveys of costs faced by TB patients and their households.
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The Updated guidelines on Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents include new recommendations that cover diagnostic approaches for TB, shorter treatment for children with non-severe drug-susceptible TB, a new option for the treatment of TB meningitis, the use of bedaquiline and delamanid in young children with multidrug- and rifampicin-resistant TB and decentralized and family-centred, integrated models of care for TB case detection and prevention in children and adolescents.
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The “WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis – Tests for tuberculosis infection” is a new consolidated policy guideline on tests for TB infection. The policy includes, for the first-time recommendations on a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs) and consolidates all currently existing recommendations for the diagnosis of TB infection, including the traditional tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs). IGRAs and TBSTs use Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex specific antigens and represent a significant advancement to TST which has been used for over half a century.
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These guidelines focus on the collection and use of person-centred data across the HIV cascade – from prevention, testing and treatment to longer-term health care – building upon 2017 and 2020 strategic information guidelines. The updated guidelines present a standard minimum dataset, priority indicators and recommendations to strengthen data use across HIV prevention, testing and treatment, and linkages to services for sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis and cervical cancer. The guidelines also cover the use of routinely collected data for HIV surveillance (including measurement of HIV prevalence and incidence) and emphasize the use of data from different sources to gain a better picture of epidemiologic trends.