Strategic resource persons

Persons providing guidance to countries on the uptake of WHO guidelines and/or development of national policies and plans, such as National Programme Managers, Ministry of Health staff, WHO staff, staff of technical agencies, consultants, or anyone else providing support on the above.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

Submitted by arvind on Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:48
Description

This e-learning course is a comprehensive, self-paced, online course that follows the content of the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 4: Treatment – drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment. The main focus of the e-course is programmatic; clinical aspects are only discussed when relevant to specific topics.

The e-course comprises 11 sections and a final assessment and uses a combination of short video lectures, exercises, quiz questions and additional reading materials.

Course Index:

  1. Introduction to the e-learning course
  2. Rationale for national TB programmes to implement and scale up treatment of DR-TB
  3. Key considerations in DR-TB treatment
  4. Treatment regimen for isoniazid-resistant rifampicin-susceptible TB
  5. Shorter, all-oral bedaquiline-containing treatment regimen
  6. Longer treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)/ rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB)
  7. The bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (BPaL) regimen for MDR-TB or RR-TB with additional fluoroquinolone resistance 
  8. Adjuncts to MDR-TB treatment
  9. Patient support to enable adherence to treatment
  10. Programmatic implementation of regimens for MDR-TB and RR-TB 
  11. Assessing drug-resistant TB programme implementation effectiveness 
  12. Final assessment 

Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection

Submitted by arvind on Tue, 12/14/2021 - 09:28
Description

This e-learning course is a comprehensive, self-paced, online course that follows the content of the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection (2021 update). The main focus of the e-course is programmatic; clinical aspects are only discussed when relevant to specific topics.

The e-course comprises seven sections and a final assessment and uses a combination of short video lectures, exercises, quiz questions and additional reading materials.

Course Index:

  1. Introduction to the e-learning course
  2. Rationale for delivering diagnostic services
  3. Key elements of TB diagnostic services
  4. WHO-recommended diagnostic tests
    • Conventional and initial diagnostic test
    • Follow-on diagnostics, tests recommended against use, and tests in the pipeline 
  5. Considerations for the new implementation of new diagnostics
  6. Diagnostic algorithms
  7. Monitoring the performance of a TB laboratory network
  8. Final assessment

TB preventive treatment

Submitted by arvind on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 10:32
Description

This e-learning course is a comprehensive, self-paced, online course that follows the content of the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: Module 1: Tuberculosis preventive treatment. The main focus of the e-course is programmatic; clinical aspects are only discussed when relevant to specific topics.

The e-course comprises 9 sections and a final assessment and uses a combination of short video lectures, exercises, quiz questions and additional reading materials.

Course Index:

  1. Introduction to the e-learning course
  2. Rationale for prioritizing programmatic management of TB preventive treatment
  3. Preparing for national scale-up of access to TB preventive treatment
  4. Who should be offered TB preventive treatment?
  5. Evaluating at-risk individuals – ruling out TB and considering TB preventive treatment
  6. TB preventive treatment regimens, safety profile, interactions
  7. TB preventive treatment model of care: initiation, monitoring, adherence support and completion
  8. Monitoring and evaluation
  9. Implementation and costing considerations
  10. Final assessment
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