Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics: The NTP Perspective

Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics: The NTP Perspective

BACKGROUND A delay is evident between the development of new policies on TB diagnostics and their implementation at country level. The Stop TB Partnership would benefit from information from national TB program (NTP) managers on progress towards implementation of new recommendations as well as the opportunities and challenges encountered in the process. METHODS AND FINDINGS To solicit informa...

Addressing Poverty in Tb Control Options for National Tb Control Programmes

Addressing Poverty in Tb Control Options for National Tb Control Programmes

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Introducing the gender perspective in national essential drug programmes

Tuberculosis Diagnostics in the New Millennium: Role in TB Identification and Control

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tuberculosis (TB) continues to remain a significant threat even as we have moved into the second decade of the 21st century. As a matter of fact TB has assumed an even more ominous stance with the emergence of totally drug resistant or TDR Mycobacteriu...