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Like many public health interventions, TB control depends on simple and largely standardized procedures, and the managerial capacity to implement them on a large scale in order to be truly effective.
By synthesizing the general principles and practical approaches for TB control that have been developed by the WHO Global TB Programme (GTB), and taught in WHO TB training courses, this handbook aims to promote such effectiveness. The focus is on pulmonary TB, the most common manifestation of TB, the most frequent cause of death from TB and the only infectious form of TB in humans.
The handbook is also a summary of WHO's experience in promoting and supporting national TB programmes (NTPs) under prevailing epidemiological, political and socioeconomic circumstances. More specifically, the handbook both presents the technical knowledge essential for TB control and provides guidelines for the important but often neglected field of programme management (i.e. the planning and implementation of control activities).
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The handbook is intended primarily for use in those low- and middle-income countries that combined report more than 90% of global TB morbidity and mortality. However, high-income countries will also find recommendations on how to reorient and intensify their TB control efforts.
The handbook is particularly intended for use by consultants and the multidisciplinary team involved in managing a national tuberculosis programme (NTP), including programme managers, epidemiologists, programme supervisors, TB medical specialists, nurses, bacteriologists, statisticians, health educators, logistics officers and trainers. |
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The handbook has been divided into nine Parts, corresponding to the specific objectives. Each Part has been divided into Chapters, each of which concludes with a Key References list.
The Handbook can be downloaded from:
http://www.who.int/gtb/publications/tbhandbook/index.htm
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