Consolidated Guidelines

The target audience for these guidelines includes laboratory managers, clinicians and other health care staff, HIV and TB programme managers, policy-makers, technical agencies, donors and implementing partners supporting the use of TB diagnostics in resource-limited settings.

Individuals responsible for programme planning, budgeting, mobilizing resources and implementing training activities for the programmatic management of DR-TB may also find this document useful.

This document provides background, justification and recommendations on novel diagnostic tools for detecting MTBC and the presence or absence of mutations in target genes proven to be associated with anti-TB drug resistance.

The Nutrition Guidance Advisory Group agreed on five key guiding principles¹ that should be considered together with the evidence-informed recommendations. The principles are intended to inform and assist national technical groups, international and regional partners providing TB care, TB treatment services, and/or maternal and child health services in countries affected by TB, in formulating national or subnational nutritional recommendations.

This guideline was developed in accordance with the WHO evidence-informed guideline development procedures, as outlined in the WHO handbook for guideline development (1).

Advisory groups

Purpose of the guideline¹