This document summarizes the WHO’s review of various diagnostics for TB. Most of it is not new, but important additions are evaluation of molecular methods for detection of resistance to INH (pages 50 and 87) and PZA (page 115). Read below.
John Green, the author of several books and a longtime supporter of Partners in Health, discusses his time visiting Sierra Leone’s Lakka Government Hospital, a tuberculosis treatment center. He talks
A multidisciplinary group of tuberculosis experts from the TBnet and RESIST-TB networks have reached a consensus on key issues related to the molecular prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibio
Children with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) undergo months of life-saving treatment including many doses of foul-tasting medications, which caregivers often struggle to prepare and admini